Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

U.S. Navy vet James Nash's final wish to see zoo animals came true at Sprenger Health Rose Lane Nursing & Rehabilitation ...

A partial skull of a 10-foot-tall ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was discovered in Ellis County, Kansas, providing new ...

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

The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop.

You stand there and you see the car coming, but you’re going to stand there and get hit with it anyway,” Shenker-Osorio recalled the woman saying.

A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago.

They had “very large claws on their forelimbs” and were “covered in thick hair,” the Illinois State Museum said.

Democratic researcher Anat Shenker-Osorio revealed that voters typically imagine Democrat politicians as sloths when asked to pick an animal for each political party. janossygergely – stock ...

During an environmental review for Loop 88 construction, officials discovered large, prehistoric animal bones, including a ...

A new fossil and DNA analysis traces how dozens of sloth species responded to climate shifts and humans. Just two small tree-dwelling sloths remain today.

Recent archaeological excavations at a highway construction site in West Texas have uncovered the fossilized remains of Ice ...