Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

But as the planet cooled again, sloths began to bulk up. The largest ground sloths emerged during the Ice Ages. Big bodies ...

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Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press ...

By Jeanne Timmons Ground sloths emerged in South America tens of million years ago, eventually ranging as far north as Canada. While their modern relatives dwell in trees and top out at the size ...

Thompson called in fossil sloth experts who helped confirm that it came from a Jefferson’s ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii. Children found an ancient sloth fossil while playing in the forest.

The pieces were taken to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science where George Phillips, paleontology curator, identified them as being those of a Jefferson's ground sloth. "For certain ...