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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skeleton of a Megalonyx jeffersonii, a giant ground sloth Entering Ohio State University’s Orton Geological Museum, you are ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- The University of Iowa's Museum of Natural History will soon get its own giant Ice Age sloth skeleton to go with Rusty, its popular replica of an Ice Age sloth on exhibit since ...

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press) — Sloths weren’t ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago. A study published Monday in the peer-reviewed ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — The earliest humans to inhabit the Cape Fear began doing so thousands of years ago. But the region had other mammals who called the area home long before that.

When the skeletal remains of a giant ground sloth were first unearthed in 1796, the discovery marked one of the earliest paleontological finds in American history. When the skeletal remains of a giant ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo is home to three Linnaeus's two-toed sloths and shares some sloth basics, but here are three lesser-known sloth facts. 1. The Smithsonian has a collection of fossilized ...

Two fossil hunters dropped into a Florida river that looked like brewed coffee and came back with a time capsule. What started as a few old horse teeth turned into a rare underwater fossil bed from ...

Entering Ohio State University’s Orton Geological Museum, you are confronted with an imposing skeleton. Standing 7 feet tall on its hind legs, its outstretched arms end in long, sharp claws. It is a ...