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

via Wikimedia Commons The Giant Ground Sloth, a name conjuring images of a prehistoric behemoth lumbering across ancient landscapes, belongs to a group of extinct mammals from the superorder Xenarthra ...

via Wikimedia Commons The Giant Ground Sloth, a name conjuring images of a prehistoric behemoth lumbering across ancient landscapes, belongs to a group of extinct mammals from the superorder Xenarthra ...

An international team of researchers has suggested a "wild" new theory to explain the creation of these mysterious ancient ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a ...

Pleistocene ground sloths were fascinating creatures that ... as a valuable tool in studying the diets and habitats of these extinct species. For example, research conducted at the Arroyo del ...

The fossil discovered at Sea-Tac Airport is at the Burke Museum, and named for the man who first came across it. Nearly 60% ...

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They’re actually more closely related to armadillos and anteaters. Sloths move incredibly slowly, traveling around 125 feet through the treetops in one day. When on the ground, they’re even slower and ...

Sloths move incredibly slowly, traveling around 125 feet through the treetops in one day. When on the ground, they’re even slower and crawl about one foot per minute. If a sloth were to sprint ...

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 ...