What is a sloth related to in the animal family?
they are said to be related to armadillos and anteaters but no one is completely sure because they reside almost exclusively in trees fossils are hard to come by. the info below explains a little more if you feel like reading that much.. At some point during the middle of the Pliocene epoch, giant ground sloths began to invade North America. They were followed in the Pleistocene epoch (Ice Age) by their relatives the armadillos and the glyptodonts( glyptodonts was a large armored mammal tha had a curved tooth that is linked to the armadillo) are . As stated by Webb (1985), armadillos were probably the ultimate ancestors of the sloth.Sarich (1985) indicated that at least 75 to 85 million years ago sloths, anteaters, and armadillos diverged from each other.
