they came across the remains of an ancient giant sloth in a deep sinkhole in Cara Blanca, Belize. They managed to retrieve ...

Paleontology Collections Advisor Wayne Thompson recognized it as a fossil arm bone likely belonging to an ancient sloth, museum officials ... the heels of a mastodon tooth that was picked up ...

Megatherium americanum is the scientific name for an extinct species of giant ground sloth. The name means 'great beast from America'. Discovered in 1787 by Manuel Torres in Argentina, the first M.

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths ... penny-sized sloth fossil. She notes that its surface is surprisingly ...

Fossils can tell us how lineages of howler monkeys adapted their teeth, skeletons, and behaviors to keep up with a changing world. Jaw of a giant otter like creature that lived 30 million years ago.