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

A two-toed sloth at the Nashville Zoo. Larisa R. G. DeSantis Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today’s sloths – commonly featured on ...

An enormous pile of enormous bones excavated in Ecuador has given new insight into the behaviour of extinct giant ground sloths. Giant ground sloths lived in North and South America for millions of ...

A remarkable set of fossilized footprints uncovered in New Mexico tell the story of a pursuit that unfolded beside a muddy lakeshore some 10,000 years ago. The fossilized prints, found in White Sands ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — 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.

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. But ...

BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled ...

A new road being built led to the bones of two giant ground sloths being discovered in Wilmington, launching them into local ...

A Facebook post features several pictures of large bones arranged in a way that resembles a human skeleton. People are observing the bones in some of the photos. "The remains of GIANTS were discovered ...