New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

Some of the most tantalizing clues come from an archaeological site in central Brazil, called Santa Elina, where bones of ...

Sloths were not always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to four tonnes — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground ... giant pandas which previously lived at Edinburgh Zoo is being transformed into a habitat for sloth ...