In this adorable YouTube video, a baby sloth is found crawling on the forrest floor, but how did it get there?

Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, have been around for 64 million years. Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Costa Rica to learn more about how they've survived.

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 ...

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like today's giraffes. "They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger ...

A fossil of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was found in Ellis County, Kansas, offering new insight into its presence in the Great Plains.

At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, a ground sloth that stood 8 to 10 feet tall went extinct. Now, bones belonging to one have been found in Kansas.

In music, a sloth canon refers to a melody that is played in half-time alongside the original. This creates a sort of warped dissonance—like a memory—while reality charges ahead.

Sloth Canon marks Tomkinson’s 10th collaboration with Company 605. When not composing he’s also a writer and academic researcher, his areas of interest including how music intersects with ...