Cracking the Mystery of How Sloths Got Long Necks

Monday, October 18, 2010 - 18:10 in Biology & Nature

The part of the skeleton which scientists had long believed to be part of the sloth rib cage is, in fact, analogous to the bottom of the mammal’s “neck.”

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