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 ...

Thousands of 12,500-year-old rock paintings dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the ancients" have been found in the Amazon jungle.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The significant decline in genetic diversity in the Amazon Basin, following historical events such as European colonisation, deforestation and the extinction of megafauna such as the sloth – the ...

Unlike the small, tree-dwelling sloths of today, the Megatherium walked on the ground ... via Wikimedia Commons The extinction of the Megatherium, alongside other megafauna of the Pleistocene, has ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

Coors Light is back in the Super Bowl advertising game with a sloth-based commercial that plays on America's Monday morning hangover. Waking up the morning after the big game, everybody's favorite ...

A sloth bear attack in Chhattisgarh's Korar forest range resulted in the deaths of a father and son, with two others injured. The bear, suspected of having rabies, first attacked Ajju Kureti and ...