We asked our friends at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville to spotlight something fascinating about Virginia's past. They tell us about a big creature ... with a big name attached.

An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...

More than a million years ago, the little-known snow sloths lived in the Ice Age... now they have been brought to life ...

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Though the Shasta ground sloth went extinct approximately 12,000 years ago, we know their diet included Joshua trees because preserved sloth dung found in caves contained seeds, leaves and fruits of ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Everybody loves sloths, and whenever we talk ...

NEW BEDFORD, MASS. (WHDH) - A Massachusetts zoo is celebrating the first-ever birth of a baby sloth in its 127-year history. The baby, a Hoffman two-toed sloth, was born at the Buttonwood Park Zoo in ...