Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press) — Sloths ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

Some of the most tantalizing clues come from an archaeological site in central Brazil, called Santa Elina, where bones of giant ground sloths show signs of being manipulated by humans.

Scientists investigate strange fossils found under future Texas highway Experts described what appears to be the tooth of a giant ground sloth and more.

Pansani poses next to the fossil of the ground sloth Eremotherium laurillardi in the museum's Deep Time Hall of Fossils. “Giant sloths were herbivores, so at least they were not eating humans.

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest New discoveries suggest ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

Thas Pansani and Kay Behrensmeyer analyze a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil, in the Smithsonian's National Taphonomy Reference Collection in Washington, D.C. on July 11, 2024.