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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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," ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Aubrey Borschke. Aren’t our modern lives a bit too … puritan? I mean, spending each and ...

DENVER (CBS4) - The baby sloth born at the Denver Zoo in January now has a name. Zoo staff on Friday afternoon were joined by a special guest to announce that the baby is a girl and that its name is ...