Floods and landslides on Indonesia's main island of Java killed one and left seven more missing after heavy rains inundated ...

The rib bone of an extinct giant sloth discovered in January at the future Dollar Tree site in Rogersville is now a part of ...

Twenty years later and the bioengineering company Colossal Biosciences has set its sights on resurrecting the legendary ...

Archeologists in Mexico have found fossils of extinct animals in a cenote in Umán, Yucatán, including those of a giant sloth ...

About 65 million years ago, dinosaurs lumbered through forests. After they went extinct, things changed — and the effects are ...

Congratulations are in order as Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo celebrates the birth of a new sloth bear cub, a baby girl born on ...

It seems some species of megafauna may have existed for much longer than previously assumed. For a long time, the overall ...

from the teacup-sized mouse lemur to the giant sloth lemur. Many of these animals exhibit incredibly high levels of genetic diversity. Yet paradoxically, almost all - 90% - of the hundred or so ...

More than 500 fossils have been unearthed at the site, with most of them dating back half a million years. The bones were well-preserved and came mostly from ancient mammals like horses, giant ...

Divers in Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including giant armadillos, ancient horses and possibly a new species of tapir.

Sloths are slow and deliberate. They have the kind of cute face that makes you smile almost involuntarily. It’s hard not to appreciate that they seem to be forever in a blissed-out state. Although ...