South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, ...

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 ...

Indeed, after observing the relationship between extinct giant sloths and living species, Darwin developed his “law of ...

The extinct giant ground sloths were some of the only mammals that had digestive systems large enough to process the huge avocado seeds whole. They feasted on the fruit and then dispersed the ...

The maned three-toed sloth is vulnerable, while the pygmy three-toed sloth is critically endangered and the sloth species at greatest risk of extinction. Sloths are primarily folivores, feeding mostly ...

But a new discovery points to the fact that incredible extinct creatures that once dominated the earth, like mastodons, giant sloths, and ancient humans coexisted for a millennia, a finding that ...

Sloths are notable for their low energy levels and slow, deliberate movements (hence their name). They are part of a larger group known as the Xenarthra, which includes their distant relatives the ...

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

The sloth and bison species have been extinct for at least 10,000 years. La Brea Tar Pits La Brea Tar Pits The discovery was made on 16 May and it took scientists at the La Brea Tar Pits and ...

They went extinct between 14,000 and 10,000 years ago, but the recently discovered tooth belonged to a sloth that lived 27,000 years ago, according to carbon dating. During that era, called the ...

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 ...