Sloths show that slow living sustains nature. Protecting them means preserving the balance of forests. Their story teaches ...

This episode of the Inside NATURE podcast is all about sloths–perhaps the strangest group of creatures evolution has ever produced. While other species get ahead by being the fastest, the biggest or ...

The fossil record is chock-full of ground-dwelling sloths ranging from medium-sized to mammoth (literally). But these days, there are only a few small sloths, and they all live in trees. Researchers ...

Sloths have a reputation for being sluggish and slow, spending most of their lives dozing in trees, but a new study suggests this is one of the enduring secrets of their success. Scientists have ...

I have a soft spot for giant ground sloths. I think part of that affection comes from this old, stop-motion video on fossil mammals I watched countless times as a kid. Sure, Platybelodon, Glyptodon, ...

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Sloths are animals that live in tropical rainforests in Central and South America, and they hang on trees for a long time and hardly move, and even if they move, they move very slowly, so they are ...

LIMA (Reuters) - The nearly intact fossil of an ancient sloth that lived 5 million years ago has been unearthed in Peru, a find about 4 million years older than similar ones discovered in the Americas ...

Three-toed sloths have a reputation for being some of the sleepiest of all animals, largely due to a single study, which found that captive sloths snooze for 16 hours a day. That certainly seems like ...

Images of meters-long fossils show remains of giant sloths housed at the Paleontological Museum Megatherium in Ecuador, not remains of a human giant. Examples of the photo shared online can be viewed ...