Mammoths and elephants, both belonging to the Elephantidae family, showcase distinct adaptations to different environments.

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to ...

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

Newly found fossils show that those rivers were home to fish, turtles, river sharks, and even hippos. On land, elephants, ...

The larger sloths didn’t do much tree climbing, at risk of falling to their deaths. Instead, they survived by being ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in ...

Of extinct Ice Age animals, woolly mammoths are probably one of the most famous. But if they were still around, then our ...

Afar is a hotspot with hot rock masses rising from deep within the mantle. It created volcanism and lifted the landscape in ...

The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop.

When a student stumbles on a fossil that turns out to be over 30,000 years old, it changes the way science is seen – not as ...

Explore how ancient sloths evolved in size, from small climbers to massive ground dwellers, shaped by shifting climates and ...