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 ...

The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US’s third president and founding father ...

Manatee County utility crews unearthed a piece of history, dating back thousands of years, while digging a trench for a ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was surprised to find a giant ground sloth fossil while digging a trench for a water line.

Town-building simulation game Go-Go Town! will leave Early Access launch for Switch and PC via Steam in spring 2026, followed later by PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, ...

A piece in The Economist says India will eventually be able to replace its Russian supply, but China will be the final ...

Six months might seem like a long time to wait to find out the sex of a baby, but when it comes to sloths, things move slowly ...

Workers in Manatee County, Florida, recently dug up an object that they thought might be an old tool. But on closer inspection, they realized it was something much, much older. The thing was brought ...

The avocado survived a series of ecological and cultural close calls that could have easily relegated it to extinction ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

The first four Ice Age films, along with a TV special, are set to arrive on streaming soon. Here's when and where you can ...