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 ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...

SAO PAULO — 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, scientists ...

As a result, the collection of fossil birds is one of the world’s largest. Although early collectors focused on bones of ...

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. But ...

The Museum of Arts & Sciences (MOAS) in Daytona Beach, Florida, is Central Florida's primary art, science, and history museum. MOAS holds significant collections, including the best-preserved Giant ...

A utility crew digging a trench in Florida came across a fossilized part of an 11,000-year-old giant ground sloth that was originally named by Thomas Jefferson. The team in Florida’s Manatee County ...

The Ice Age-era fossil had an unusual feature when it arrived at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History last year: It shimmered with glitter. Kindergarten and first grade students discovered the ...