Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.
Sometimes it nice to just kick back and take it slow. Really slow. So what if evolution had the same mindset, and decided to ...
Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many as 40,000 years ago, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harlan's ground sloth fossil skeleton excavated and displayed at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Larisa DeSantis A two-toed ...
In 1991, a skateboarder discovered 1.5-million-year-old giant ground sloth fossils in Wilmington, North Carolina. Scientists from the Smithsonian determined the fossils belonged to two different ...
Researchers have so far recovered 49 bone pieces including a femur, vertebrae and ribs from the mastodon and giant sloth ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging ...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Researchers in Costa Rica have unearthed fossils from a mastodon and a giant sloth that lived as many ...