Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harlan's ground sloth fossil skeleton excavated and displayed at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Larisa DeSantis A two-toed ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago. A study published Monday in the peer-reviewed ...

Apple TV is taking viewers back in time. The streaming service announced its latest series, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, and shared a new trailer for the natural history series with PEOPLE. "For two ...

Bones from an extinct ground sloth that stood between 8 and 10 feet tall were found in Kansas. Photo from the Illinois State Museum. At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ...

Officials discovered the remains of a giant ground sloth and other prehistoric animals near Lubbock while working on a new highway. The Texas Department of Transportation contracted an archeological ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today’s sloths – commonly featured on children’s backpacks, stationery and lunch boxes – are ...