A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago.

They had “very large claws on their forelimbs” and were “covered in thick hair,” the Illinois State Museum said.

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 ...

An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to ...

"Slothingham" was born the moment WSDOT removed a second oversized stuffed sloth from a tree outside Bellingham. The city ...

"Now, whether all the bones are giant ground sloth, or there are some different animals, like mammoth or mastodon, we're not sure yet. But paleontologists will give us positive identification ...

WSDOT said it would allow the stuffed animal to remain for the time being. When we say slow down, we mean watch for our road crews—not go sloth-spotting! This morning, our crews removed a giant ...

The infamous sloth stuffed animal seen in the trees near Bellingham is back. And it appears he will be hanging around for a while. Someone on the Bellingham Reddit page spotted the sloth at the ...

McKeon said the sloth is likely to remain, stating that the resources needed to remove it would require the closure of I-5 to stage equipment for crews to safely reach the stuffed animal ...

Axolotls, owls, hedgehogs, foxes and sloths also had recent turns in ... coffee mugs and stuffed animals. Angel said she plans to open another capybara cafe across the state in St. Petersburg ...

Axolotls, owls, hedgehogs, foxes and sloths also had recent turns in the ... coffee mugs and stuffed animals. The cafe was created to financially support the Hastings, Florida-based nonprofit ...