New research revealed that the first humans to arrive in the Americas lived alongside giant ground sloths for thousands of years, challenging previous theories about human migration and megafauna ...

The fossil discovered at Sea-Tac Airport is at the Burke Museum, and named for the man who first came across it. Nearly 60% ...

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant sloths and mammoths ... cause or causes that led to the extinction of megafauna in South America,” says Fábio Henrique ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a spectacular cave in southern Brazil. When he reaches the cave’s opening, Alano is ...

Who or what snuffed out the mammoths and other megafauna 13,000 years ago ... turned up that early hunters preyed on giant ground sloths, short-faced bears, camels, or any of the other large ...

The disappearance of American megafauna—mammoths, camels, giant short-faced bears, giant armadillos, stag moose, glyptodonts, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, giant ground sloths, and horses, ...

Pleistocene ground sloths were fascinating creatures that roamed South America during the Late Pleistocene epoch. These large herbivores were part of a diverse megafauna that included various ...

From the large selection of avian and megafauna, we settled on: the Arctodus simus (North American Short Faced Bear), the Megalonyx jeffersonii (North American Jefferson Ground Sloth), the ...