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 ...

A fossil of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was found in Ellis County, Kansas, offering new insight into its presence in the Great Plains.

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 ...

Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, have been around for 64 million years. Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Costa Rica to learn more about how they've survived.

In music, a sloth canon refers to a melody that is played in half-time alongside the original. This creates a sort of warped dissonance—like a memory—while reality charges ahead.

Sloth Canon marks Tomkinson’s 10th collaboration with Company 605. When not composing he’s also a writer and academic researcher, his areas of interest including how music intersects with ...

As the zoo remembers Bali, it is also excited to announce the arrival of a new member to the Mill Mountain Zoo family: a sweet, slow-moving sloth! To celebrate this new addition, the zoo is ...

Gaudin is one of only two known UTC faculty members ever published in Science. The paper, a collaboration among researchers from around the world, explores how body size evolved across sloth ...