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 ...

Giant ground sloths were large, lumbering beasts that lived in the Americas during the Ice Age. They were directly related to today's modern sloths. They were also distantly related to anteaters ...

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 ... “It accommodates kids ...

Ice Age Ohio was home to many large animals, including the giant ground sloth. New evidence shows that ground sloth was on the menu of Ohioans 14,000 years ago. Courtesy of Karen Carr Ancient bones ...

The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during a road construction project. Here's what it was ...

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, possibly after swallowing their own feces in a contaminated pool of shallow water. Scientists discovered the bones of nearly two ...

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 ...