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Costa Rican sloth antibiotics offer hope for human medicine
AFP, Published on 01/05/2023
» CAHUITA (COSTA RICA) - The fur of Costa Rican sloths appears to harbor antibiotic-producing bacteria that scientists hope may hold a solution to the growing problem of "superbugs" resistant to humanity's dwindling arsenal of drugs.
Venezuelan couple goes all out for smiling but endangered sloths
AFP, Published on 03/10/2021
» SAN ANTONIO DE LOS ALTOS, Venezuela: Haydee Rodriguez has just set free a sloth named Maruja 58 in a forested area outside Caracas and is watching her get settled.
Chile to ask British Museum to return extinct mammal remains
AFP, Published on 05/11/2018
» SANTIAGO - Chile announced on Sunday that it will ask the British Museum in London to return the remains of a mylodon, an extinct mammal that lived in Patagonia about 10,000 years ago.