Nearly 12,600 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene era, a group of humans hunted and killed a giant ground sloth in Argentina, then left the animal's bones behind, along with their butchering knife.

Early humans living in South America carved giant sloth bones into decorative ornaments that may have been worn as jewellery. The discovery also provides new evidence that people arrived in ...

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

He and a fellow diver located the giant sloth tooth on their first dive. "When we first went down, I thought 'Ok we'll find a few things,' but it was amazing - there was just so much bone down ...

The bones were exposed after a landslide occurred at the cliffs above the beach. The fossils have been cleaned and archaeologists have created papier mache of the giant sloth bones. It is believed ...