Uncover the ancient history of Big Bone Lick State Park in Union, Kentucky. Learn how this fossil-rich salt lick became the ...

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

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, mountains, deserts, boreal forests, and open savannas. These habitat differences mainly explain the wide variation in size among sloth species. Illustration by Diego ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

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 ...

“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.