Nearly 12,600 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene era, a group of humans hunted and killed a giant ground sloth in Argentina, then left the animal's bones behind, along with their butchering knife.

The dating of the oldest human activity at this site, including these giant sloth bone pendants, to around 27,000 years ago means that modern humans reached central Brazil prior to the last ...

The wide muzzle of G. robustum suggests it was adapted for bulk-feeding on large quantities of poor-qualilty foliage such as grass. Recent detailed comparisons of the hyoid bones of ground sloths, ...

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 ...

There's nothing that children love more than spending a day outdoors, digging around, and hunting for different types of bugs ...

Sloths, the famously slow-moving yet adorable creatures native to Central and South America, could face extinction by the end of the century due to climate change. Researchers investigating how ...

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 ...

BIXBY, Okla. — At Anchored in Hope in Bixby you'll find a wide range of counseling services and two sloths. "Shiloh is mom, and Simon is our baby," says Anchored in Hope owner Ashley Beers.

The survival of sloths is under threat due to climate change, according to a new study. The famously slow-moving - and adorable - creatures of Central and South America could die out if ...