The most famous of these ancient beasts was Megatherium. Among the first giant ground sloths ever found, this imposing beast has been fascinating paleontologists and the public for over 200 years.

A Manatee County utilities crew was surprised to find a giant ground sloth fossil while digging a trench for a water line.

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 ...

Perhaps, should paleontologists find a giant sloth coprolite flecked with glyptodont shell or Megatherium scavenging damage on bones, some of the giant sloths might be transformed from slow, dim ...

The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name, Megalonyx jeffersonii, by Jefferson, the US’s third president, in 1797 after some fossils belonging to the extinct beast were found in a ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet long. Thousands of years ago, however, some sloths walked along the ground ...

Some thought that last item came from a 250,000-year-old woolly mammoth that had been preserved in ice, and others believed it was from an extinct giant ground sloth called Megatherium.

The study results may also help shed light on any role humans may have had in the extinction of giant ground sloths. This confrontation of hunters and hunted took place more than 11,700 years ago ...

Was Frozen Mammoth or Giant Ground Sloth Served for Dinner at The Explorers Club? PLOS ONE, 2016; 11 (2): e0146825 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146825 ...

Researchers have discovered a dwarf-sized cousin of the giant ground sloth in 17-million-year-old rock. Paleontology blogger Brian Switek reports.