In February 2022, daughter Dianna Johnson contacted the Burke with a request: Would it consider naming the giant sloth after her ailing father, then in his final weeks? Museum staff ...

Jens Christian Svenning at a fossilized skeleton of a giant ground sloth, Lestodon armatus, on display in the Natural History Museum, New York Credit must be given to the creator. Only ...

also known as the “tongue beast,” another species of giant sloth. Hoping to learn more about Darwin’s ancient megafauna, I ...

Fossils found by workers digging a tunnel for a new railway line in Los Angeles have been identified as the remains of a giant ... Museum about eight days to identify them. The bison and sloth ...

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 ...

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 ...