The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant shuffled across the woodlands of the ancient Americas between 60,000 and five ...

For a listing and recovery biologist, it was just a regular day. United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Luke Pearson was recently doing field research in Northeast Mississippi on a species of ...

UNION, Ky. – Big Bone Lick State Historic Site's stature as the birthplace of paleontology in the Western Hemisphere rose by about 8 feet. The skeletal reconstruction of a 2,000-pound Harlan's Ground ...

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," ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species.

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The new additions will be ready to meet guests in a few weeks after they adjust to their new environment Indiana’s sloth population just got bigger! Six new rescue slots from Panama have just made the ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are ...