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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

He was hard to miss if you were driving to Bellingham. A giant stuffed sloth lived in a tree off Interstate 5 (I-5) near Lake Samish. He is called “Slothy.” The Washington Department of ...

The extinct giant ground sloths were some of the only mammals that ... This weird weekly routine remains one of the biggest mysteries surrounding sloth behaviour. While there are many different ...

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'.

The former home of the giant pandas which previously lived at Edinburgh Zoo is being transformed into a habitat for sloth bears. It will be the first time the zoo welcomes the vulnerable species ...