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

A sloth in its natural habitat in Costa Rica, where sloth populations have decreased in the past decade, according to Rebecca Cliffe, lead author of the research. Bernd Dittrich via Unsplash In the ...

In 1991, a skateboarder discovered 1.5-million-year-old giant ground sloth fossils in Wilmington, North Carolina. Scientists from the Smithsonian determined the fossils belonged to two different ...

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 ...

There's no shortage of illness swirling on a daily basis, but warm weather and travels brings in a slew of insect-borne diseases. From babesiosis to malaria to Lyme disease, it's always worth ...

WITH THAT REPORT. STEVEN. YEAH, FOR NOW THOUGH, WE DO WANT TO GET TO A HEALTH ALERT RIGHT NOW. HEALTH OFFICIALS, THEY ARE ON ALERT FOR RISING CASES OF WHAT’S KNOWN AS SLOTH FEVER. LET’S GET TO OUR ...