The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant shuffled across the woodlands of the ancient Americas between 60,000 and five ...

For a listing and recovery biologist, it was just a regular day. United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Luke Pearson was recently doing field research in Northeast Mississippi on a species of ...

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," ...

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.

Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

UNION, Ky. – Big Bone Lick State Historic Site's stature as the birthplace of paleontology in the Western Hemisphere rose by about 8 feet. The skeletal reconstruction of a 2,000-pound Harlan's Ground ...

Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and ...

Many attractions have seen a lot of visitors during the past week, and some places have had more guests than usual for this time of year. This increase in business helps the financial blow that ...

After “Sloth Fever” began spreading into Central Florida last year, experts with the University of Florida say they’ve ...

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