For centuries, people encountering sloths for the first time have reacted by ridiculing them. In 1526, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés wrote that the sloths he’d seen ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago. A study published Monday in the peer ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground ...

But any measure of time is pointless for the subject of our next story: the slow-moving sloth. You might think these distant relatives of the armadillo would make the perfect meal for just about ...

Bones from an extinct ground sloth that stood between 8 and 10 feet tall were found in Kansas. Photo from the Illinois State Museum. At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 ...

Some voters think the Democratic Party should trade the donkey for the sloth or a “deer in the headlights,” according to the revelations of a consultant who’s conducted more than 200 focus ...

The score by Matthew Tomkinson builds tension until the room feels like a taut balloon. In music, a sloth canon refers to a melody that is played in half-time alongside the original. This creates ...

The new cross-Pacific collaboration Sloth Canon makes a strong case that we’re all architects of our own misfortune, unwilling to slow down a progress-obsessed world even though we’d probably ...