But any measure of time is pointless for the subject of our next story: the slow-moving sloth. You might think these distant relatives of the armadillo would make the perfect meal for just about ...

For centuries, people encountering sloths for the first time have reacted by ridiculing them. In 1526, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés wrote that the sloths he’d seen ...

Defecating exposes sloths to predators on the jungle floor. An unexpected ally benefits, and returns the favor. A brown-throated three-toed sloth peers over a tree's buttress root while defecating ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago. A study published Monday in the peer ...

Today, only two sloth species survive, but once there were dozens, ranging from small tree dwellers to enormous ground giants.Scientists have now uncovered why these extinct giant ground sloths ...

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 ...

The score by Matthew Tomkinson builds tension until the room feels like a taut balloon. In music, a sloth canon refers to a melody that is played in half-time alongside the original. This creates ...

The new cross-Pacific collaboration Sloth Canon makes a strong case that we’re all architects of our own misfortune, unwilling to slow down a progress-obsessed world even though we’d probably ...