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Natural Trap Cave near Lovell is one of the best Ice Age fossil sites in the world, but its lack of saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths tells paleontologists that those Californians never ...

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American lions (Panthera atrox), ancient bison (Bison antiquus), coyotes (Canis latrans), dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus), Harlan's ground sloths (Paramylodon harlani), saber-toothed cats (Smilodon ...

A new study of the remains of animals trapped long ago in the La Brea tar pits, in what’s now Los Angeles, suggests both factors worked in concert to bring about the demise of the region’s ...

Some 14,000 years ago, downtown Los Angeles was awash with dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, nearly one-ton camels and 10-foot-long ground sloths. But in the geologic blink of an eye, everything ...

Living period From Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs; went extinct 11,000 years ago. The scientific name for Harlan’s ground sloth is Paramylodon. It was a ground sloth endemic to the North American ...

Let’s dispense with the bad news first! No mammoths have ever been discovered in Oregon, except a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth’s tusk that was uncovered beneath the roadway at Corvallis. The tusk ...

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Three species of ancient sloth are known from that time period and geographic region: Megalonyx, Nothrotheriops, and Paramylodon. But of the three, only two—Nothrotheriops and Paramylodon—have ...