During his travels in Uruguay, Darwin uncovered fossils belonging to Glossotherium, also known as the “tongue beast,” another ...

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 ...

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 bison. The "amazing discovery" of a sloth's hip bone and ...

Nearly 12,600 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene era, a group of humans hunted and killed a giant ground sloth in Argentina, then left the animal's bones behind, along with their butchering knife.

Experts don't know exactly why the ancient giant sloth went extinct, but they don't think climate change was the only cause.

Alicia Malkinson-Gregori takes a trip to the Museum of Zoology, and reflects on our relationship with nature, past and ...

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 ...

Matheus Fernandes In a dusty rock shelter in Santa Elina, Brazil, two layers of giant ground sloth bones have been swallowed into the earth. The oldest sloth fossils in the deposit date back ...

Unlike now, most extinct sloths lived on the ground and some were many times larger than modern tree sloths. Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth. On ...

Natural Trap Cave near Lovell is one of the best Ice Age fossil sites in the world, but its lack of saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths ...