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

A Manatee County utilities crew was surprised to find a giant ground sloth fossil while digging a trench for a water line.

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

Manatee County utility crews unearthed a piece of history, dating back thousands of years, while digging a trench for a ...

In the Hall of Dinosaurs in the National Museum of Natural History, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Gazin (1904-1995) of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology looking up at the bones of an Eremotherium, ...

In the Hall of Dinosaurs in the National Museum of Natural History, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Gazin (1904-1995) of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology stands to the right of an Eremotherium ...

Erosion may have erased some of this history forever, but beneath the sand, fossils of megafauna like mammoths and ground sloths were still preserved—alongside the controversial footprints.