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.

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground, ...

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

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 ...

But as the planet cooled again, sloths began to bulk up. The largest ground sloths emerged during the Ice Ages. Big bodies ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

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 ...