SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths ... these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons, ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Not cute and endearing like present-day sloths in South America ... possible human newcomers. These giant woolly pachyderms were still wandering the North American continent when humans arrived ...

Since North America has a relatively recent history ... His conclusions were wrong but his pioneering work was honored when the giant sloth was renamed Megalonyx jeffersonii.

Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth. On finding the specimen ... The remains of the animal have been found throughout South America, from Bolivia in the ...