A 33,000-year-old sloth bone discovered in Uruguay reveals signs of possible human-made trauma, suggesting early human ...

The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant ...

If you're looking for something fun to do this summer, we have not one, not two but six zoos in several cities across the state. Here's what to know about each one.

Wikimedia Commons/US Geological Service White Sands, New Mexico David Bustos found strange marks in the white sands of New ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, mountains, deserts, boreal forests, and open savannas. These habitat differences mainly explain the wide variation in size among sloth species. Illustration by Diego ...

Sloths originated and primarily evolved in South America, but they made it to the Caribbean and Florida in the late Miocene.

But for tens of millions of years, South America was home to a dizzying diversity of sloths. Many were ground-dwelling giants, with some behemoths approaching 5 tonnes in weight.

An artist’s concept of a pair of giant ground sloths, Megatherium, during the Quaternary period in what is now South America. James Kuether/Science Source ...

28 January 2025 Did giant ice age beasts carve these vast caves in South America? Researchers are investigating who — or what — cut ancient tunnels in sandstone in Brazil and nearby nations.

South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, challenging the idea that they were hunted to extinction by humans ...

SAO PAULO — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws.

New research suggests that humans, new to the Americas, lived alongside giant ground sloths and mastodons for millennia.