“Megalonyx jeffersonii … it’s just one of those iconic animals that more people should know about,” said sloth expert Melissa Macias. The students found the bone last spring in an Ice Age ...

A group of fossil collectors have discovered a mass ice age fossil grave buried in Florida's Steinhatchee River.

these sloths were one of the strangest animals of the ice age. They weighed as much, or more, than the short-faced bear at 1 tonne and stood 3 metres tall, growing to the size of an ox.

During the Ice Age, some mammals were particularly large. The giant sloth had adapted very well to the climatic conditions. The reason for its extinction was unclear for a long time - until ...

(See a list of all 35 vanished genera of North American Ice Age mammals.) But some skeptics ... up that early hunters preyed on giant ground sloths, short-faced bears, camels, or any of the ...

Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk ... to protect themselves from a colder and drier climate” during ice ages. Ground sloths might also have used the caves to hide offspring from predators.