These were the giant ground sloths—some of the ... as many other Ice Age giants—mammoths, saber-tooth cats, and more—also faded into history. Scientists still debate the exact causes ...

according to the San Diego Natural History Museum. Giant ground sloths preferred forests along rivers or lakes, but they also lived during the Pleistocene period, also known as the Great Ice Age.

A Texas road project unearthed remains of Ice Age era animals. Here's what they found, and what will happen to the remains.

“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 ... preserves 85,000 years of ...

South America’s ground sloths, such the enormous Eremotherium, soon followed – the youngest dung and tissue samples found on the continent date between 10,600 and 10,200 years ago. But for ...

Slow on the heels of last year’s mammoth-naming contest, the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas is looking for a cool new handle for its giant ice age sloth. “Pokey” springs to mind.

Ice Age Ohio was home to many large animals ... Brian Redmond, curator of archaeology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, says hunters either killed, or came across a dead ground sloth, and ...

During the last ice age, known as the Pleistocene ... Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History did anyone in the scientific community know that massive ground sloths once roamed the region.

He didn’t know what it was, but he knew it was old, that it dated to the Ice Age, when people first arrived ... 13,000-year-old dung of a Shasta ground sloth, the first proof they lived in ...

During the Ice Age, a group of giant ground sloths died together ... wrote and directed media for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Her videos about dinosaurs, astrophysics ...

Giant ground sloths, which vanished at the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago, could weigh more than an elephant. With their lethal claws and muscle, the herbivores would have been ...