Divers discover 500,000-year-old fossils in a Florida sinkhole on the Steinhatchee River, revealing the existence of ancient ...

At the site of Megatherium excavation in 1927. Image by The Field Museum Library, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons. The story of the giant sloth serves as a poignant reminder of our planet’s ...

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

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

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 ...

Giant sloths used to roam all over North ... manager of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Ground sloths greatly varied in size. The fairly squat and chunky Shasta ...

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 matches with the expansion of Homo sapiens, first over the entire American supercontinent, and later in the Caribbean,” he says — which is where some giant sloths lived ...

The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during the ongoing road construction project for Loop 88. Due to Texas having locations where ancient human activity connected ...

Giant sloths ... But the larger sloths? “They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger,” Rachel Narducci, collection manager of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural ...