These were the giant ground sloths—some of the most astonishing and misunderstood mammals to ever walk the Earth. Towering over most animals of their time, these Ice Age behemoths were not the ...

The children — likely four in all — raced and splashed through the soppy sloth trackway ... locating and analyzing footprints left by ice age humans and megafauna (animals heavier than ...

Sloths weren’t always the slow, tree-hugging creatures we know today. For millions of years, they came in a wild variety of ...

one of four now-extinct species of ground sloth that inhabited North America during the Ice Age. In life it would have weighed about 2,400 pounds, average for the species. Megalonyx means “great ...

“At the end of that summer of digging, we had about 6,000 bones from seven species of megafauna, so mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, horses, camels, Ice Age deer, and Ice Age bison,” he said.

The students found the bone last spring in an Ice Age sediment deposit, placing it in a ballpark between 11,500 years and 300,000 years old. It’s the first Jefferson’s ground sloth fossil ever ...

The Tarkio Valley Sloth Project helped researchers understand more about Page County during the Ice Age. The bones of a giant ground sloth are giving a better picture of Iowa in the Ice Age.

This time period is known as the Ice Age, which ended 11,700 years ago. "We know we found the giant ground sloth by the distinctive tooth that was discovered," said Jason Britsch, Amarillo Public ...

A giant ground sloth tooth and other Ice Age era animal remains were discovered during a road project in Lubbock, Texas. The remains, estimated to be 18,000-36,000 years old, are being preserved ...

Officials said the megafauna is typical of this region, as the Panhandle has remnants of lakes from the Ice Age ... “We know we’ve found giant ground sloth by its distinctive tooth ...