Ahead of a road construction project in Lubbock, Texas, the state's Department of Transportation sent archaeologists to excavate the site — and they uncovered a treasure trove of prehistoric remains.

The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History investigated ... of the rarest finds in the state’s history: the fossil of a giant sloth. “The fossil was found last spring by a group of elementary ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 ...

The remains are now being preserved and studied by the Museum of Texas Tech, 3301 4th St. The team has already learned that the excavation included more than the sloth tooth. Cool find ...

Pansani poses next to the fossil of the ground sloth Eremotherium laurillardi in the museum's Deep Time Hall of Fossils. “Giant sloths were herbivores, so at least they were not eating humans.

The excavation near Loop 88 has already dug up a giant find — the tooth of a Giant Ground Sloth. Update ... TxDOT is in contact with the Museum of Texas Tech, which is assisting in the ...

This is where the Florida Museum ... sloths hardly changed at all for about 20 million years, irrespective of their preferred method of locomotion. Then something earth-shattering occurred. A ...

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press ...

Even within the museum itself, Martinelli says ... Given previous extinctions of megafauna such as Darwin’s giant sloth, and humanity’s inability to protect current day wildlife, it’s ...