The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant ...

The Prehistoric Giant Ground Sloth In Texas According to a press release from the Texas Department of Transportation, the remains of the prehistoric ground sloth were found during an ongoing road ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

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

“We know we’ve found Giant Ground Sloth by its distinctive tooth,” said Chris Ringstaff, project planner with TxDOT’s environmental affairs division. “We’re here to get the road built.

A fossil of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was found in Ellis County, Kansas, offering new insight into its presence in the Great Plains.

LUBBOCK, Texas – While surveying for road construction on May 13, workers unearthed something unexpected. According to a news release from TxDOT, an archeological survey in Lubbock unearthed the ...

Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong by Jerald Pinson, Florida Museum of Natural History ...

“We know we’ve found Giant Ground Sloth by its distinctive tooth,” said Chris Ringstaff, project planner with TxDOT’s environmental affairs division. “We’re here to get the road built.

A fossil of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was found in Ellis County, Kansas, offering new insight into its presence in the Great Plains.