Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

During the Ice Age ... giant sloth had adapted very well to the climatic conditions. The reason for its extinction was unclear for a long time - until researchers like forensic scientists examined the ...

During the Ice Age, early humans lived alongside large animals like mammoths, saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths.

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through ... with the end of the last Ice Age, a time when an ice-free ...