New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

Some of the most tantalizing clues come from an archaeological site in central Brazil, called Santa Elina, where bones of ...

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 ...

Sloths were not always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to four tonnes — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time ...

He was hard to miss if you were driving to Bellingham. A giant stuffed sloth lived in a tree off Interstate 5 (I-5) near Lake Samish. He is called “Slothy.” The Washington Department of ...

“It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” It’s... a giant stuffed sloth? That’s right-- crews with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) removed a giant stuffed animal sloth ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground ... giant pandas which previously lived at Edinburgh Zoo is being transformed into a habitat for sloth ...