The rib bone of an extinct giant sloth discovered in January at the future Dollar Tree site in Rogersville is now a part of ...

Archeologists in Mexico have found fossils of extinct animals in a cenote in Umán, Yucatán, including those of a giant sloth ...

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 ... the ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground ... a bone becomes a fossil. This allows her team to analyze when the sloth ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground ... a bone becomes a fossil. This allows her team to analyze when the sloth ...

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.

Nearly 27,000 years ago, a giant ... ground sloths, officially called Eremotherium laurillardi, were much larger than today's sloths - they could be up to 20 feet long from tip to tail, stand ...