Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Fossils found by workers digging a tunnel for a new railway line in Los Angeles have been identified as the remains of a giant sloth and a bison. The "amazing discovery" of a sloth's hip bone and ...

Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant sloths and mammoths, survived in South America much later than previously thought, raising questions about the root causes ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — 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 ...

Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth. On finding the specimen ... including the front of the skull and teeth. The wide muzzle of G. robustum suggests it ...