Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Two of the sloths at the National Aviary celebrated their birthdays surrounded by lots of yummy food and hundreds of guests on Thursday. It was quite the affair, with over 300 ...

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like today's giraffes. "They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger," ...

Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, ...

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press) — Sloths weren’t ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...

The Dudley Zoo knew their Linne's two-toed sloth Flo was pregnant, but the English zoo didn't expect the baby to arrive until later in the year Zookeepers at the Dudley Zoo were stunned to discover ...

Miracle Mile, and the entirety of the mid-city area, is known for its on-the-move spirit, the sort of quick-acting forward motion that keeps the neighborhood's many businesses, eateries, and ...