Roger Williams Park Zoo has revealed the name of the baby two-toed sloth born earlier this month. "Say hello to Quint! This ...

Roger Williams Zoo just welcomed its tiniest new tenant: a baby two-toed sloth. On Oct. 11, the new sloth was born at the zoo ...

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.

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

The Palm Beach Zoo in West Palm Beach, home to towering trees, tigers and lemurs, unveiled a new specially designed habitat for two sloths and three endangered squirrel-sized monkeys called golden ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

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 years ...

Sloth in prison -- The Great Basin now and then -- A zoologically impoverished world -- Dating an ass -- A stable of ground sloths -- Extinct mammals, dangerous plants, and the early peoples of the ...

At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, a ground sloth that stood 8 to 10 feet tall went extinct. Now, bones belonging to one have been found in Kansas. A partial skull ...