Giant sloths with razor-sharp claws and as large as Asian bull elephants once roamed the Earth, snacking on leaves at the tops of trees with a prehensile tongue. Now, scientists have figured out why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of a fuzzy sloth face Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops ...

BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled ...

The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant shuffled across the woodlands of the ancient Americas between 60,000 and five ...

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Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species.

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 ...

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 ...

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"We know we've found giant ground sloth by its distinctive tooth," said Chris Ringstaff, project planner with TxDOT's environmental affairs division. "Whether all the bones are giant ground sloth or ...