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 ...

Beneath Brazil’s forests lie vast Ice Age tunnels, carved not by humans or nature, but giant ground sloths—revealing hidden ...

The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during the ongoing road construction project for Loop 88. Due to Texas having locations where ancient human activity connected to ...

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.

A utility crew digging a trench in Florida came across a fossilized part of an 11,000-year-old giant ground sloth that was originally named by Thomas Jefferson. The team in Florida’s Manatee County ...

Bones from an extinct ground sloth that stood between 8 and 10 feet tall were found in Kansas. Photo from the Illinois State Museum. At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ...

An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to cold and dry conditions ...