The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US’s third president and founding father ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was surprised to find a giant ground sloth fossil while digging a trench for a water line.

Manatee County utility crews unearthed a piece of history, dating back thousands of years, while digging a trench for a ...

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

Ground sloths varied widely in size, from the truly massive Megatherium — which could rip foliage off the tops of trees with its prehensile tongue and acted as a sort of ecological stand in for ...

“We know we’ve found Giant Ground Sloth by its distinctive tooth,” said Chris Ringstaff, project planner with TxDOT’s environmental affairs division. “We’re here to get the road built.

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press) — Sloths ...

Bones from an extinct ground sloth that stood between 8 and 10 feet tall were found in Kansas. Photo from the Illinois State Museum. At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 ...

The most distant known object in our solar system was found, Jupiter showed off its artistic side, and a sad accident for a 27,000-year-old giant ground sloth turned into a win for science.

A partial skull of a 10-foot-tall ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was discovered in Ellis County, Kansas, providing new insights into the animal’s distribution and geological history in … ...