Twenty thousand years ago, a giant ground sloth the size of a large bear lumbered into a cave in Nevada and, well, went to the bathroom. Its dung — rich with the remains of the lilies and other plants ...

This is true of the bizarre fruit Eremotherium can be seen eating in the series, the very cannonball-like fruit of the ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. But ...

Long before modern sloths became slow-moving tree dwellers, their ancestors were enormous ground beasts. These ancient sloths stood as tall as elephants and weighed several tons. Fossil evidence shows ...

Sloths weren't always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws.Video above: ...

BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled ...

A Facebook post features several pictures of large bones arranged in a way that resembles a human skeleton. People are observing the bones in some of the photos. "The remains of GIANTS were discovered ...

On November 14, 2025 in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, @alma.martinez261 shared a video of a massive character balloon being ...

Don't worry, giant ground sloths won't be interrupting anyone's Caribbean vacation. Humans killed them all off long ago, according to new findings published in the November issue of the Annual Review ...

Researchers studying a trail of fossilized footprints on a remote New Mexico salt flat have determined the tracks tell the story of a group of Ice Age hunters stalking a giant sloth. Park naturalist ...

The sloths we know and love today may be small and slow, but they're survivors. Unfortunately, the bulk of sloth species that once roamed the earth -- some of which grew to be the size of elephants -- ...

Three people known for their work with sloths, fishing cats and giant armadillos were announced this week as winners of the 2022 Future for Nature Award. Tiasa Adhya of India, Gabriel Massocato from ...