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 ...

Thaís Pansani holding a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil, thought to be burned by human fire about 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, in Smithsonian's collection AP ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished ...

"A giant ground sloth" The first site widely accepted as older than Clovis was in Monte Verde, Chile. Buried beneath a peat bog, researchers discovered 14,500-year-old stone tools, pieces of ...

Thaís Pansani holds a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil dated to about 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, which is thought to be burned by human-made fire, in the Smithsonian’s National ...

According to the National Park Service, the giant ground sloth—likely the Shasta ground sloth or Nortrotheriops shastensis—stood up to 9 feet tall and weighed over 500 pounds.

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 ...

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 27,000 years .

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 ...

Thas Pansani holds a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil dated to about 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, which is thought to be burned by human-made fire, in the Smithsonian's National Taphonomy ...

Thas Pansani holds a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil dated to about 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, which is thought to be burned by human-made fire, in the Smithsonian's National Taphonomy ...