Sloths live in perpetual slow motion in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America today. But Roughly 10,000 years ago, a family of ancient, giant relatives would roam any number of ...

Matheus Fernandes In a dusty rock shelter in Santa Elina, Brazil, two layers of giant ground sloth bones have been swallowed into the earth. The oldest sloth fossils in the deposit date back ...

We were immediately blasted by the smell of 40,000 year old sloth dung, piled up to 6m deep! It was a unique experience – to be walking in the footsteps of thousands of Shasta ground sloths ...

It has been known to science that the main pollinizer and carrier for Joshua trees is another species of giant ground sloth. Shasta ground sloths of the genus Nothrotheriops up have commonly been ...

Nearly 27,000 years ago, a giant ground sloth traveled across a barren, arid landscape in what is now Belize, munching on grassy vegetation and searching for water. A nearby sinkhole may have ...