Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today’s sloths – commonly ...

Every October 20, the world slows down (at least in spirit) for International Sloth Day. It’s the perfect excuse to celebrate ...

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. But ...

A Facebook post features several pictures of large bones arranged in a way that resembles a human skeleton. People are observing the bones in some of the photos. "The remains of GIANTS were discovered ...

More than 20 years after a southwest Iowan dug a large bone out of a creek bed near Shenandoah, researchers from the University of Iowa are publishing a paper about what turned out to be a family of ...

The ancient fossil is between 11,500 years and 300,000 years old Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small and limber tree climbers to lumbering bear-sized landlubbers. Why sloth body size was once so ...

SANTA CRUZ — During the last ice age, known as the Pleistocene, Santa Cruz County was a wild place populated with ancient humans and larger-than-life creatures, or megafauna, such as mastodons and ...

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 years ...

World Sloth Day 2025 highlights the most fascinating facts about sloths, from their unique digestion and slow-paced lifestyle to their surprising strength and swimming abilities.

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-reviewed ...