A Manatee County utilities crew was surprised to find a giant ground sloth fossil while digging a trench for a water line.

The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US’s third president and founding father ...

Manatee County utility crews unearthed a piece of history, dating back thousands of years, while digging a trench for a ...

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong ... “We have the largest collection of North American and Caribbean-island sloths in the world ...

Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas. Science Advances . Published online March 6, 2019. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aau4546.

“This matches with the expansion of Homo sapiens, first over the entire American supercontinent, and later in the Caribbean,” he says — which is where some giant sloths lived.

The excavation near Loop 88 has already dug up a giant find — the tooth of a Giant Ground Sloth. Update: Here's what else was found in the excavation. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — While conducting an environmental review for Loop 88 in Lubbock, Texas, TxDOT found what experts believe to be the tooth of a giant ground sloth.The Panhandle is home to several ...

At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, a ground sloth that stood 8 to 10 feet tall went extinct. Now, bones belonging to one have been found in Kansas.

“We know we’ve found Giant Ground Sloth by its distinctive tooth,” said Chris Ringstaff, project planner with TxDOT’s environmental affairs division. “We’re here to get the road built.