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Three people known for their work with sloths, fishing cats and giant armadillos were announced this week as winners of the 2022 Future for Nature Award. Tiasa Adhya of India, Gabriel Massocato from ...

SAO PAULO — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists ...

Fossils of a 27,000-year-old giant ground sloth have given scientists insight into what life was like for the roughly 13-foot-tall beast before it died, according to a new study. Scientists at the ...

BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled ...

A Facebook post features several pictures of large bones arranged in a way that resembles a human skeleton. People are observing the bones in some of the photos. "The remains of GIANTS were discovered ...

The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during the ongoing road construction project for Loop 88. Due to Texas having locations where ancient human activity connected to ...

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Large animals started going extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, just as both climate change and a new predator — Homo sapiens — arrived on the scene. But despite humans’ brutal legacy of killing ...

A construction crew was working at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport in 1961 when they came across bones. The bones, which dated back 12,700 years, belonged to an extinct giant ground sloth. The giant sloth ...