In a rare and exciting find, road crews in Lubbock, Texas, stumbled upon a prehistoric creature fossil while working on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harlan's ground sloth fossil skeleton excavated and displayed at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Larisa DeSantis A two-toed ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago. A study published Monday in the peer-reviewed ...

SANTA CRUZ — During the last ice age, known as the Pleistocene, Santa Cruz County was a wild place populated with ancient humans and larger-than-life creatures, or megafauna, such as mastodons and ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

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.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging ...