New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

Paleontologists discovered Duonychus tsogtbaatari from fossils uncovered in 2012. It was a giant, feathered creature adapted ...

During his voyage, Darwin uncovered the remains of four species of giant sloths, three of which were new to science, and such discoveries would later help to inform the naturalist’s theory of ...

A giant stuffed animal dubbed "Slothy" had watched over northbound Interstate 5 in Bellingham for over a year.

Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

In 2014, divers discovered the remains of that giant sloth buried in a clay shelf in a sinkhole 70 feet underwater. The researchers were searching for Mayan artifacts that may have been thrown ...

Early humans living in South America carved giant sloth bones into decorative ornaments that may have been worn as jewellery. The discovery also provides new evidence that people arrived in ...

Marianela Amaya and Marcelo Lima were taking a walk down Serena beach in Mar del Plata on Argentina’s Atlantic coast on Sunday when they came across the remains of a giant sloth, believed to be ...

Crews with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) removed a giant stuffed animal sloth from a tree along I-5 in Bellingham on Tuesday. The sloth was about 70 feet up, so crews had ...

The remains of the animal have been found throughout South ... Megatherium americanum is the scientific name for an extinct species of giant ground sloth. The name means 'great beast from America'.