The bones of giant ground sloths found there show signs of having ... with North America losing 70% of its large mammals and South America more than 80%. However, the new evidence indicates ...

Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

Although giant sloth fossils are plentiful across South America, Campo Laborde is "the only place in the entire Americas where we can see the animal was hunted and killed there," Politis said.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths ... giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons, ...

Paleontologists discovered Duonychus tsogtbaatari from fossils uncovered in 2012. It was a giant, feathered creature adapted ...

The remains of the animal have been found throughout South America, from Bolivia in the ... is the scientific name for an extinct species of giant ground sloth. The name means 'great beast from ...

“With the dating, we wanted to better understand the distribution of ancient megafauna in South America. What we found — 3,500-year-old species — was totally unexpected,” says ...

For a fresh view of the Beagle voyage, start with Darwin's armadillos and giant sloths ... rheas and sloths and armadillos in South America, extinct and living forms clustered closely in space ...