Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to ...

During an environmental review for Loop 88 construction, officials discovered large, prehistoric animal bones, including a ...

The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during a road construction project. Here's what it was ...

Ahead of a road construction project in Lubbock, Texas, the state's Department of Transportation sent archaeologists to ...

The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop.

A new fossil and DNA analysis traces how dozens of sloth species responded to climate shifts and humans. Just two small tree-dwelling sloths remain today.

According to a news release from TxDOT, an archeological survey in Lubbock unearthed the bones of prehistoric animals called ...

Explore how ancient sloths evolved in size, from small climbers to massive ground dwellers, shaped by shifting climates and ...

Officials with the Texas Department of Transportation discovered Ice Age fossils under a future highway near Lubbock.

What they found was the bones of prehistoric megafauna, or large earth-roaming animals. “We know we’ve found giant ground sloth by its distinctive tooth,” said Chris Ringstaff, project ...

"We have the largest collection of North American and Caribbean-island sloths in the world," Narducci said. She carefully took several measurements of 117 limb bones and shared the numbers with ...

At least one giant ground sloth has been positively identified, with other bones still being studied by paleontologists.