In a rare and exciting find, road crews in Lubbock, Texas, stumbled upon a prehistoric creature fossil while working on the ...

A giant ground sloth tooth and other Ice Age era animal remains were discovered during a road project in Lubbock, Texas. The remains, estimated to be 18,000-36,000 years old, are being preserved and ...

Ground sloths achieved their greatest size during the last ice age—right before starting to disappear around 15,000 years ago. Given that humans arrived in North America around the same time (though ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

Apple TV is taking viewers back in time. The streaming service announced its latest series, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, and shared a new trailer for the natural history series with PEOPLE. "For two ...

SPECIAL TO THE T&D Between 20 and 60 million years of geology are captured in this strata of limestone along the walls of the Giant Cement quarry near Harleyville. The largest cache of Ice Age fossils ...

Sloth in prison -- The Great Basin now and then -- A zoologically impoverished world -- Dating an ass -- A stable of ground sloths -- Extinct mammals, dangerous plants, and the early peoples of the ...

After a West Texas road project unearthed ancient remains of Ice Age era animals, more details have come to light on what else was found and what will happen next. On May 13, 2025, the Texas ...