Sloths, the world's slowest mammals, have evolved over 64 million years into a species that thrives throughout Central America and northern South America, but climate change and human sprawl could be ...

Ancient sloths ranged in size from tiny climbers to ground-dwelling giants. Now, researchers report this body size diversity was largely shaped by sloths’ habitats, and that these animals’ precipitous ...

Sloths were not always the slow-moving creatures that we are familiar with today. For millions of years, these fascinating animals exhibited a wide range of sizes and forms, from small, nimble ...

Pleistocene ground sloths constitute a remarkable and diverse group of xenarthran mammals that thrived across South America during a period of significant climatic and environmental flux. Their fossil ...

Dr. Tim Gaudin, a UC Foundation professor in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science, is a co-author of a new study on sloth evolution ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Scientists report evidence for a new -- but now extinct -- species of ancient ground-dwelling sloth Study advances evolutionary history of the slow-moving mammals that now live only in trees Date: ...

Most people are familiar with modern sloths — slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammals that digest food slowly and descend only occasionally. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, a ...