When you begin to think of the cutest animals in nature, a sloth may not immediately come to mind, but that’s probably because you’ve never seen a baby sloth. One look at the baby sloth in this ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are ...

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 ...