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.

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big. Most of us are familiar sloths, the ...

Shark Week? In this year 2026, that’s kind of played out. Sloth Month? Now there’s something we can (very slowly) get behind. This winter, the Children’s Natural History Museum in Fremont acquired a ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KRON) — Elementary school students were playing in the forest when they found a strange object. The curious kids suspected it was a bone from a very big animal that once lived in ...

Giant sloths with razor-sharp claws and as large as Asian bull elephants once roamed the Earth, snacking on leaves at the tops of trees with a prehensile tongue. Now, scientists have figured out why ...

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press) — Sloths weren’t ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo is home to three Linnaeus's two-toed sloths and shares some sloth basics, but here are three lesser-known sloth facts. 1. The Smithsonian has a collection of fossilized ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are ...