A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores ... like present-day sloths in South America, these sloths were one of the strangest animals of the ice age. They weighed as much ...

During the most recent Ice Age, the world looked utterly different ... the Megalonyx jeffersonii (North American Jefferson Ground Sloth), the Panthera leo atrox (American Cave Lion) and the ...

The extinct giant ground ... sloths are so difficult to study in the wild, no one has ever followed an individual from birth until death and it is virtually impossible to accurately determine the ...

They lived concurrently with ancient mammoths and/or mastodons, giant ground sloths and large wolves, during the peak of the last ice age. Those are among the conclusions scientists revealed in a ...

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

We were immediately blasted by the smell of 40,000 year old sloth dung, piled up to 6m deep! It was a unique experience – to be walking in the footsteps of thousands of Shasta ground sloths ...

Long before today’s slow-moving tree dwellers, sloths were towering giants. In this episode, we look back at the age of the giant ground sloth - massive creatures that once roamed the Americas, ...