Many thousands of years ago, the Sarasota-Manatee area was home to a diverse mix of now-extinct mammals—most notably, saber-tooth cats, mastodons and giant ground sloths called Megatherium, which ...

This uplifting post from discover.animal shows some good Samaritans helping a lucky sloth make its way across traffic and into the forest. Sloths are typically docile and are rarely a danger to people ...

Although it sounds like a grade-B science fiction movie, fossils show that our ancestors once hunted and fought giant ground sloths. For the first time, scientists have uncovered fossilized footprints ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...

A utility crew digging a trench in Florida came across a fossilized part of an 11,000-year-old giant ground sloth that was originally named by Thomas Jefferson. The team in Florida’s Manatee County ...

Every fossil tells a story, and some have the power to rewrite entire chapters of our understanding of prehistoric life. Over the past few decades, dinosaur fossils have changed from being just rare ...