Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

The fossil discovered at Sea-Tac Airport is at the Burke Museum, and named for the man who first came across it. Nearly 60% ...

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

Three similar “pendant” fossils are visibly different from ... As Odess interprets them, one set of tracks shows “a giant ground sloth going along on four feet” when it encounters the ...

Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant sloths and mammoths, survived in South America much later than previously thought, raising questions about the root causes ...

Thais Pansani and Kay Behrensmeyer analyse a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil ... And because the fossil record shows the widespread decline of American megafauna starting around the ...

Thais Pansani and Kay Behrensmeyer analyse a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil ... to an idea about how early humans moved into the continent after crossing the Bering land bridge from Asia.