A group of fossil collectors have discovered a mass ice age fossil grave buried in Florida's Steinhatchee River.

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 ...

“Megalonyx jeffersonii … it’s just one of those iconic animals that more people should know about,” said sloth expert Melissa Macias. The students found the bone last spring in an Ice Age ...

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

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

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

A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores ... like present-day sloths in South America, these sloths were one of the strangest animals of the ice age. They weighed as much ...

During the most recent Ice Age, the world looked utterly different. The landscapes of Ancient Europe and North America were engulfed in ice and inhabited by giant beasts that no longer exist.

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...