Sloths have been around before dinosaurs -- over 65 million years. Giant sloths the size of elephants used to exist, but they are now extinct. Sloths are 3 times stronger than humans. Free ...

The sloth is the world's slowest mammal, so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of its Central and South ...

Archeologists in Mexico have found fossils of extinct animals in a cenote in Umán, Yucatán, including those of a giant sloth ...

S. leptocephalum was one of the smaller, more gracile ground sloths of the Pleistocene, weighing around 500 to 1,000 kilogrammes in weight, around the size of a large buffalo. It had a narrow, tubular ...

The Hoffman's two-toed sloth is one of the world's slowest mammals—so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of ...