On May 21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis 5,810 kilometers (3,610 miles) between Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, and Paris, France, in 33 hours, 30 minutes.
They are classified in the order Pilosa because they are related to anteaters, which sport a similar set of specialized claws. Extinct sloth species include many megafaunal ground sloths, some of which attained the size of elephants, as well as a few species of marine sloths. Extant sloths are medium-sized arboreal (tree-dwelling) residents of the jungles of Central and South America.
This article is about the South American mammal. For other uses, see Sloth (disambiguation) . Sloths (/ËsloÊÎ¸/ SLOHTH, /ËslÉÎ¸/ SLOTH) are medium-sized mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloth) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloth), classified into six species.he living sloths belong to one of two families, known as the Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths) and the Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths). All living sloths have in fact three toes; the two-toed sloths, however, have only two fingers.