The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

By Jeanne Timmons Ground sloths emerged in South America tens of million years ago, eventually ranging as far north as Canada. While their modern relatives dwell in trees and top out at the size ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths ... these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons, ...

Unlike now, most extinct sloths lived on the ground and some were many times larger than modern tree sloths. Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth ...

Bustos at White Sands National Monument in Holloman Air Force Base, NM, and colleagues was titled, "Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America." ...

The American ... sloths looked fearsome, they fed on leaves and twigs of the northern forests and posed no threat to possible human newcomers. These giant woolly pachyderms were still wandering ...

“It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” It’s... a giant stuffed sloth? That’s right-- crews with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) removed a giant stuffed animal sloth ...

For over 200,000 years, dire wolves roamed across North America—from southern ... ultimately disappearing with the last giant ground sloths and mastodons about 13,000 years ago.