Now, giant ground sloths aren’t hippos - obviously - but researchers think that it’s totally plausible that they might’ve wallowed in pools, because lots of other big herbivores that live in ...

Trailing the giant ground sloth Scatology: DNA found in preserved droppings in a Nevada cave confirms theories that a creature many times the size of its modern counterpart lived during the Ice Age.

Don't worry, giant ground sloths won't be interrupting anyone's Caribbean vacation. Humans killed them all off long ago, according to new findings published in the November issue of the Annual ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled such a formidable prey.

WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, N.M. (AP) — Researchers studying fossilized footprints on a New Mexico salt flat say a trail of tracks tells the story of Ice Age hunters stalking a huge sloth.

The sloths we know and love today may be small and slow, but they're survivors. Unfortunately, the bulk of sloth species that once roamed the earth -- some of which grew to be the size of ...