Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution ... Pansani published research on a modified giant ground sloth tooth discovered over 1,200 miles east ...

The Club's history includes tales of sack races, beer-drinking, and serenading the daughters of the Smithsonian’s Secretary, Joseph Henry. The Club's name is coined after the Megatherium, at the time ...

According to the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, there are believed to only be around 20,000 sloth bears in the world. The International Union for Conservation of ...

Sloth bear cub Remi plays harmonica as part of an animal enrichment program at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The activity encourages the same behavior sloth bears in the wild use to suck insects ...

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 ...

Fossils found by workers digging a tunnel for a new railway line in Los Angeles have been identified as the remains of a giant sloth and a bison. The "amazing discovery" of a sloth's hip bone and ...

Pendants made of bony material from giant sloths suggest humans lived in South ... a co-author and paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in ...