Paleontology Collections Advisor Wayne Thompson recognized it as a fossil arm bone likely belonging to an ancient sloth, museum officials ... bone last spring in an Ice Age sediment deposit ...

During the Ice Age, some mammals were particularly large. The giant sloth had adapted very well to the climatic conditions. The reason for its extinction was unclear for a long time - until ...

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned ...

A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores lived ... day sloths in South America, these sloths were one of the strangest animals of the ice age. They weighed as much, or more ...

Sid, the central sloth in the “Ice Age” franchise, is slow of wit but swift in body, while “Zootopia” installed its sloth, Flash, as an unhurried employee of the Department of Mammal Vehicles.

Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed ...