Two new exhibits are now open at the Steele Creek Nature Center. Visitors can check out both its Park After Dark and Giant Ground Sloth exhibits, which opened last week.

The Boone and Crockett Club has confirmed a new record for the largest hunter-killed grizzly bear. The giant boar scored 27 9/16.

The short-faced bear, *Arctodus simus*, was one of the largest terrestrial mammalian carnivores of the Pleistocene. With a height exceeding 11 feet when standing on its hind legs, it roamed the open ...

The largest grizzly on record, found in Alaska, weighed 1,600 pounds. A male Arctodus, the extinct short-faced bear, could reach a weight of over 2,000 pounds. “Our grizzlies today are very ...

A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago.

The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop.

Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong by Jerald Pinson, Florida Museum of Natural History ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to cold and dry conditions ...

“We know we’ve found Giant Ground Sloth by its distinctive tooth,” said Chris Ringstaff, project planner with TxDOT’s environmental affairs division. “We’re here to get the road built.