Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harlan's ground sloth fossil skeleton excavated and displayed at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Larisa DeSantis A two-toed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground, ...

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

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big. Most of us are familiar sloths, the ...

At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, a ground sloth that stood 8 to 10 feet tall went extinct. Now, bones belonging to one have been found in Kansas. A partial skull ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today’s sloths – commonly featured on children’s backpacks, stationery and lunch boxes – are ...

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 ...

(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 ...