Imagine the unique ecological niches that might exist if the gentle giant sloths never went extinct. Bernie Sanders' Crowd ...

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

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has removed a second giant stuffed sloth from a tree over ...

Paleontologists have discovered a strange new dinosaur species that may have looked like a giant, feathered mix of a sloth and giraffe. It had only two raptor-like clawed fingers per hand ...

Giant ground sloths, mammoths and elephants, giant bison and tapirs, even species of massive armadillos and camels all died out in the millennia after humans arrived in the Americas. Australia ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo's 3-month-old sloth bear cub, Bowie, is set to make her public debut this weekend. Born on January 8, the same day as music icon David Bowie, the young cub will be ...

Chinese carmaker BYD saw a surge in revenue last year, a stock filing showed Monday, surpassing the $100 billion mark and beating rival Tesla as the electric vehicle giant accelerates its overseas ...

In other paleontological news, the claws of a newly discovered two-fingered species had researchers questioning whether they came from a giant sloth or the 1990 film “Edward Scissorhands.” ...

They patrolled North America hunting giant ground sloths, bison, and other megafauna until about the end of the last ice age. Then they disappeared and their unique contribution to the North ...