Fossils found by workers digging a tunnel for a new railway line in Los Angeles have been identified as the remains of a giant sloth and a bison. The "amazing discovery" of a sloth's hip bone and ...

The neighbor's Doberman is cute, but we want a guard cave lion instead. Why it's cool: It's a heavy metal sloth. Having a giant ground sloth might be a worse idea than having a pet cave lion. See, ...

Jens Christian Svenning at a fossilized skeleton of a giant ground sloth, Lestodon armatus, on display in the Natural History Museum, New York Credit must be given to the creator. Only ...

Based on the fossil records and genetic studies, the three-toed sloth is related to giant ground sloths, including the elephant-sized Megatherium and pony-sized Megalonyx, which were found in Central ...

While divers were searching for Maya artifacts in 2014, they came across the remains of an ancient giant sloth in a deep sinkhole in Cara Blanca, Belize. They managed to retrieve fossils of the ...

Nearly 27,000 years ago, a giant ground sloth traveled across a barren, arid landscape in what is now Belize, munching on grassy vegetation and searching for water. A nearby sinkhole may have ...

Unlike now, most extinct sloths lived on the ground and some were many times larger than modern tree sloths. Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth. On ...

During the Ice Age, some mammals were particularly large. The giant sloth had adapted very well to the climatic conditions. The reason for its extinction was unclear for a long time - until ...

Central and South America’s sloth populations may face a dire existential threat from climate change by the end of the century. New research published on September 27 in the journal PeerJ ...

The study, titled "Sloth Metabolism May Make Survival Untenable Under Climate Change Scenarios," investigates how two-fingered sloths (Choloepus hoffmanni), living in both highland and lowland ...

DJ Charlie Sloth perfectly chilled his vodka drink by ... The former Radio One DJ strapped the flavoured Au Vodka bottle to a giant helium balloon with a GPS tracker before releasing it into ...

Sloths are more vulnerable to the rising temperatures associated with climate change than other mammals, due to their unique physiology. In a new study, my colleagues and I found that sloths’ ability ...