The Metro Richmond Zoo is going prehistoric. State of play: Ice Age Invasion — the zoo's new limited-run exhibition — opens ...

Giant sloths are among the most famous of the megafauna, living alongside wooly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. While a changing climate and habitat transformation would have played a part in their ...

Although it sounds like a grade-B science fiction movie, fossils show that our ancestors once hunted and fought giant ground sloths. For the first time, scientists have uncovered fossilized footprints ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. New research suggests humans lived in South ...

Many large herbivores that once roamed modern-day Panama have declined or died out—including the 6-meter-long giant ground sloth and elephant-related creatures called Cuvieronius. New research ...

As of early Friday afternoon at the Ziegler Reservoir site, crews from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS) had found a giant ground sloth, three ice-age bison, at least five mastodons, at ...