Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

Paleontology Collections Advisor Wayne Thompson recognized it as a fossil arm bone likely belonging to an ancient sloth, ...

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 ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a ...

An international team of researchers has suggested a "wild" new theory to explain the creation of these mysterious ancient ...

Pleistocene ground sloths were fascinating creatures that roamed South America during the Late Pleistocene epoch. These large herbivores were part of a diverse megafauna that included various ...

Fossils found by workers digging a tunnel for a new railway line in Los Angeles have been identified as the remains of a giant sloth and a ... following the last ice age - include massive camels ...

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 ...

these sloths were one of the strangest animals of the ice age. They weighed as much, or more, than the short-faced bear at 1 tonne and stood 3 metres tall, growing to the size of an ox.

Robin Bicknell, Director The Nature of Things documentary, Ice Bridge tells the story of ... jeffersonii (North American Jefferson Ground Sloth), the Panthera leo atrox (American Cave Lion ...