Natural Trap Cave near Lovell is one of the best Ice Age fossil sites in the world, but its lack of saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths ...

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...

Bustos at White Sands National Monument in Holloman Air Force Base, NM, and colleagues was titled, "Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America." ...

Unlike now, most extinct sloths lived on the ground and some were many times larger than modern tree sloths. Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth. On ...

The neighbor's Doberman is cute, but we want a guard cave lion instead. Why it's cool: It's a heavy metal sloth. Having a ...

From left to right on the ground are representative giant ground sloths: Mylodon (South America), Megalonyx (North America), and Megatherium (South America). According to new molecular studies ...

The extinct giant ground sloths were some of the only mammals that had digestive systems large enough to process the huge avocado seeds whole. They feasted on the fruit and then dispersed the ...

More than 500 fossils of Ice Age beasts, including saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths and huge mammoths, have been discovered in recent months by crews tunneling a new Los Angeles subway branch, ...

Based on the fossil records and genetic studies, the three-toed sloth is related to giant ground sloths, including the elephant-sized Megatherium and pony-sized Megalonyx, which were found in Central ...

After leaving his car windows open overnight, the man documented his adorable sloth encounter in a now-viral video Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE ...

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