Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

Many thousands of years ago, the Sarasota-Manatee area was home to a diverse mix of now-extinct mammals—most notably, saber-tooth cats, mastodons and giant ground sloths called Megatherium, which ...

Although it sounds like a grade-B science fiction movie, fossils show that our ancestors once hunted and fought giant ground sloths. For the first time, scientists have uncovered fossilized footprints ...

This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and into the forest. Sloths are typically docile and are rarely a danger to people ...

A utility crew digging a trench in Florida came across a fossilized part of an 11,000-year-old giant ground sloth that was originally named by Thomas Jefferson. The team in Florida’s Manatee County ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...

A Manatee County utilities crew digging a trench for a waterline discovered a fossilized claw from a Jefferson’s ground sloth. The fossil dates back to more than 11,000 years ago. The fossil will one ...