According to the museum, the Jefferson’s ground sloths were "large herbivorous mammals with blunt snouts" that weighed anywhere between 2200 and 2425 lbs. and could grow up to three meters long.

The ancient fossil is between 11,500 years and 300,000 years old ...

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

The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant ...

Paleontologist Thais Pansani stands in front the reconstructed skeleton of a giant ground sloth at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on July 11.

The bones appeared to be from large, prehistoric animals that were once common in the area during the Pleistocene Epoch. This time period is known as the Ice Age, which ended 11,700 years ago.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KSBW) - A prehistoric sloth bone was recently uncovered in California, but it wasn’t discovered by paleontologists using sophisticated equipment. Instead, it was found by a ...

Bring the whole family and walk among towering prehistoric creatures like the Wooly Mammoth and Giant Ground Sloth! The exhibit has life-size fossil replicas, interactive displays, and education ...

With Ice Age movies, the first of which came out in 2002, the primary pop-culture association shifted to an actual sloth — a prehistoric ground sloth named Sid.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KSBW) - A prehistoric sloth bone was recently uncovered in California, but it wasn’t discovered by paleontologists using sophisticated equipment. Instead, it was found by a ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KSBW) - A prehistoric sloth bone was recently uncovered in California, but it wasn’t discovered by paleontologists using sophisticated equipment. Instead, it was found by a ...