Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

A new road being built led to the bones of two giant ground sloths being discovered in Wilmington, launching them into local ...

Sometimes it nice to just kick back and take it slow. Really slow. So what if evolution had the same mindset, and decided to take its time before getting rid of some prehistoric creatures? What if the ...

A Facebook post features several pictures of large bones arranged in a way that resembles a human skeleton. People are observing the bones in some of the photos. "The remains of GIANTS were discovered ...

BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled ...

Two fossil hunters dropped into a Florida river that looked like brewed coffee and came back with a time capsule. What ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. But ...

Don't worry, giant ground sloths won't be interrupting anyone's Caribbean vacation. Humans killed them all off long ago, according to new findings published in the November issue of the Annual Review ...

Large animals started going extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, just as both climate change and a new predator — Homo sapiens — arrived on the scene. But despite humans’ brutal legacy of killing ...

Evidence collected from an ice age boneyard suggests a group of giant ground sloths died wallowing in their own feces, say scientists. In a study published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, ...

BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled ...