Fossil discoveries are exciting on their own, but sometimes, they carry even more information about the past. Newly uncovered fossils from an extinct giant ground sloth that lived in Belize 27,000 ...

While divers were searching for Maya artifacts in 2014, they came across the remains of an ancient giant sloth in a deep sinkhole in Cara Blanca, Belize. They managed to retrieve fossils of the ...

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 to ...

At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, a ground sloth that stood 8 to 10 feet tall went extinct. Now, bones belonging to one have been found in Kansas. A partial skull ...

Many thousands of years ago, the Sarasota-Manatee area was home to a diverse mix of now-extinct mammals—most notably, saber-tooth cats, mastodons and giant ground sloths called Megatherium, which ...

Credit: flickr You wouldn’t expect it from an animal that barely moves, but sloths are excellent swimmers. They use a sort of doggy paddle and can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes. Water ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Everybody loves sloths, and whenever we talk ...