Ahead of a road construction project in Lubbock, Texas, the state's Department of Transportation sent archaeologists to ...

New research shows 8,000-pound sloths once dug caves, adapted to oceans, and roamed widely—until climate and humans brought ...

Most people are familiar with modern sloths — slow-moving, tree-dwelling mammals that digest food slowly and descend only occasionally. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, a ...

Several of the museum’s Shasta ground sloth dung specimens. Chip Clark, NMNH “It’s fun to think about just how many people have seen the contents of these drawers,” said Kathy Hollis ...

this time for its 9-foot-tall skeleton of an extinct Shasta ground sloth. The sloth joined the museum’s collection in 1995, five years after some hikers found it in a cave near Devil Peak ...

Caden’s name beat out two other finalists, handpicked by museum staff from a larger pool of entries: Daisy, a play on the fact that the skeleton is from a female Shasta ground sloth that has ...

Schroeder mailed him a sample of what he’d found. Mead made the ID – this was the 13,000-year-old dung of a Shasta ground sloth, the first proof they lived in the Big Bend. Mead wanted more ...

You can enjoy the awesome opportunity "...to bring a digital Shasta ground sloth back to Hancock Park." "Weighing in at around half a ton, these were one of the smaller ground sloth species." ...

Ground sloths had a special fondness for caves, and their size undoubtedly played a role in their ability to find and make shelters. The moderately sized Shasta ground sloth favored small ...

Ground sloths greatly varied in size. The fairly squat and chunky Shasta fed on cacti in the deserts of North America, while the mighty Megatherium could use a long tongue like a giraffe’s to ...

The data reveal that while the diet of the Shasta ground slothwas exclusively plant-based, Darwin’s ground sloth was an omnivore, Tejada and colleagues report October 7 in Scientific Reports.

This article continues after the gallery. There are two types of Giant Ground Sloths: the Nothrotheriops shastensis, known as the Shasta Ground Sloth, and the Megalonyx, or Large Clawed Ground ...