May 23, 2025 by News Staff

Today, there are only two sloth species, but historically, there were dozens of them, including one with a bottle-nosed snout that ate ants and another...

Feb 3, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered what they say is one of the oldest-known fossils of the ground sloth Megatherium. Life reconstruction of Megatherium....

Jun 7, 2019 by News Staff

Sloths once roamed the Americas, ranging from cat-sized animals that lived in trees all the way up to giant ground sloths. The only species we know today,...

May 15, 2017 by News Staff

Giant sloths, massive animals that lived in the Americas during the Ice Age, subsisted on an exclusively plant-based diet, according to an isotopic analysis...