The exhibit has life-size fossil replicas, interactive displays, and education panels for all dinosaur fans and age groups.

It had a large skull with a blunt snout, a massive jaw, well-developed chewing muscles, and large, blunt, peg-like teeth,” the museum explained. The giant sloth primarily dwelled in forests and ...

Recent archaeological excavations at a highway construction site in West Texas have uncovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age creatures.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Jeanne Timmons Ground sloths emerged in South America tens of ... Mariana Di Giacomo, a natural history conservator at the Yale Peabody Museum who was not involved in the research, described ...