Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP See more of our coverage in your search results.

Mexican scientists said Wednesday they have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of giant sloth that lived 10,000 years ago and died at the bottom of a sinkhole. The ...

SAO PAULO — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists ...

Visit with Wilmington's giant ground sloth, soon to be on the move A replica skeleton of a giant ground sloth unearthed in Wilmington in 1991 is on display at the Cape Fear Museum, but will soon be ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago. A study published Monday in the peer-reviewed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are ...

After developing source relationships for more than a year, science reporter Christina Larson secured exclusive media access for the AP to visit a University of Sao Paulo lab housing 27,000-year-old ...