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Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana ...

If so, this would be the first time TxDOT has found megafauna from the Ice Age paired with human activity. Officials said this would not affect the project’s timeline, even if further digging is ...

Prehistoric sloth remains uncovered near Lubbock as work starts on Loop 88 By Elizabeth L. T. Moore, Reporter May 25, 2025 ...

The remains belonged to megafauna, which are large mammals. Chris Ringstaff, a project planner with TxDOT’s environmental affairs division, said that megafauna bones “ [are] not unusual in the ...

While there’s abundant evidence of humans hunting mammoths and other megafauna in the Late Pleistocene, McDonald says, there’s relatively little of humans hunting sloths.

“We know we’ve found Giant Ground Sloth by its distinctive tooth,” said Chris Ringstaff, project planner with TxDOT’s environmental affairs division. “We’re here to get the road built.

Long before they were nature’s slowpokes, sloths were megafauna monsters — towering creatures capable of defending themselves and changing landscapes. This is the story of how evolution nerfed ...

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct. By Jeanne Timmons Ground sloths emerged in South America tens of ...

Now researchers have found other megafauna specimens, including giant sloths and camel-like animals, that survived in South America up to around 3,500 years ago.

South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, challenging the idea that they were hunted to extinction by humans ...

SAO PAULO — 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 immense claws.