South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a ...

Having a giant ground sloth might be a worse idea than ... Toolache Wallaby died in captivity in 1939. The species was officially declared extinct a few years later, thanks to a lethal combination ...

The discovery of giant sloth bones from animals that weighed ... Given that before this period, it is believed that "one species went extinct every 40,000 years", the extinction event was ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths ... animals for at least 10,000 years, without making them go extinct." ...

Palaeontologist Thais Pansani stands in front the reconstructed skeleton of a giant ground sloth at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC (Mary Conlon/AP) But new ...

Palaeontologist Thais Pansani stands in front the reconstructed skeleton of a giant ground sloth at ... these animals for at least 10,000 years, without making them go extinct”.

An illustration depicting a person carving an osteoderm from a giant sloth in Brazil ... alongside these animals for at least 10,000 years, without making them go extinct”.