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 ...

Learn about the assemblage of fossils discovered at a water cave in central Texas, shedding light on Ice Age megafauna that ...

Although it sounds like a grade-B science fiction movie, fossils show that our ancestors once hunted and fought giant ground sloths. For the first time, scientists have uncovered fossilized footprints ...

Researchers studying a trail of fossilized footprints on a remote New Mexico salt flat have determined the tracks tell the story of a group of Ice Age hunters stalking a giant sloth. Park naturalist ...

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Coprolite is the official name for it, but what could be more weird than 10,000-year-old mummified dung from giant sloths? From the Series: Smithsonian's Weirdest ...