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

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

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

Giant sloth remains were discovered in the Lubbock area during an environmental review for Loop 88 construction, officials said. Nobumichi Tamura/Stocktrek Image/Getty Images/Stocktrek Images ...

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 of some smaller dog ...

“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.