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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Vanderbilt University and Aditya Reddy Kurre, University of ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...

WSDOT removed the first stuffed sloth from the trees along I-5 south of Bellingham on March 18, 2025. A second sloth was later removed, but a third sloth is now too high up to be safely reached. WSDOT ...

Some Fossil Sloths Were the Size of Elephants Credit: Canva Ancient, giant ground sloths roamed the Americas. Some reached the size of modern elephants and lived alongside early humans. Though extinct ...

Cape Fear Museum prepares to move major exhibit The replica of a giant sloth discovered off Randall Parkway in 1991 is on the move to the Cape Fear Museum's new space in downtown Wilmington.

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.