SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, ...

The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during the ongoing road construction project for Loop 88. Due to Texas having locations where ancient human activity connected to ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For ...

Sloths were not always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to four tonnes — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists ...

A cooling, drying climate turned sloths into giants – before humans potentially drove the huge animals to extinction. Today’s sloths are small, famously sluggish herbivores that move through the ...

In 1991, a skateboarder discovered 1.5-million-year-old giant ground sloth fossils in Wilmington, North Carolina. Scientists from the Smithsonian determined the fossils belonged to two different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are ...

After developing source relationships for more than a year, science reporter Christina Larson secured exclusive media access for the AP to visit a University of Sao Paulo lab housing 27,000-year-old ...