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 ...

ELEANOR -- Even though it's summer break, children learned some fascinating facts at the Eleanor Library on Friday as Kevin Adkins, of Red House, told them about the 11,000-year-old Megalonyx ...

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 ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...