Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana ...

Bolg amondol was a raccoon-sized armored mostesaurian lizard that lived about 77 million years ago, similar to today’s Gila monsters ( Heloderma horridum ). It is named after the goblin prince from ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago. A study published Monday in the peer ...

Pictured is the Megatherium americanum from the Pleistocene epoch of South America. Giant sloth remains were discovered in the Lubbock area during an environmental review for Loop 88 construction ...

Giant sloths used to roam all over North America. Over 10 times bigger than today’s sloths, many lived on the ground instead of in the trees and their closest living relatives are actually ...

Larger sloths weren't restricted to pre-existing caves. Using claws that are among the largest of any known mammal, living or extinct, they could carve their own from bare earth and rock.

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

Boscaini and his colleagues compiled data on the physical features, DNA and proteins of 67 extinct and living sloth genera – groups of closely related species – to develop a family tree ...

Imagine the unique ecological niches that might exist if the gentle giant sloths never went extinct. Trump makes entrance to UFC 314 Why I Make My Grandmother's 4-Ingredient Salad Dressing Every ...

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct. By Jeanne Timmons Ground sloths emerged in South America tens of ...