Every so often, a discovery comes along that changes our understanding of the distant past. In the vast landscapes of the ...

As Odess interprets them, one set of tracks shows “a giant ground sloth going along on four feet” when it encounters the footprints of a small human who’s recently dashed by. The huge animal ...

Archeologists in Mexico have found fossils of extinct animals in a cenote in Umán, Yucatán, including those of a giant sloth ...

Gaylene Thomas, a wildlife care manager at the San Diego Zoo, oversees two teams that care for a variety of species, ...

Nearly 27,000 years ago, a giant ground sloth traveled across a barren, arid landscape in what is now Belize, munching on grassy vegetation and searching for water. A nearby sinkhole may have ...

Jens Christian Svenning at a fossilized skeleton of a giant ground sloth, Lestodon armatus, on display in the Natural History Museum, New York Credit must be given to the creator. Only ...

The extinct giant ground sloths were some of the only ... There is even evidence to suggest that several different species of marine sloth existed, feeding from sea grass and seaweed in shallow ...

When a giant fossilized claw was discovered in West ... That claw didn’t belong to a fearsome meat eater, but to a massive, cumbersome sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii). Not cute and endearing ...

Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth. On finding the specimen, Darwin identified it as belonging to the same family as the modern sloths. Richard Owen ...

The rib bone of an extinct giant sloth discovered in January at the future Dollar Tree site in Rogersville is now a part of ...