The final two specimens of Darwin's fossil mammals to have been scanned belonged to an extinct giant ground sloth. In the latest update to the digitisation of Darwin's fossil mammals project, ...

Discovered at the end of the 18th century, the giant sloth Megatherium was an impressive beast, but how did it get its food?

Researchers have discovered a dwarf-sized cousin of the giant ground sloth in 17-million-year-old rock. Paleontology blogger Brian Switek reports.

Megatherium and other large mammals were the stars of paleontology until the dinosaurs like Megalosaurus and Iguanodon showed them up in the 1840’s.

Eremotherium, which was slightly larger than Megatherium, was the only sloth whose fur coverage might have changed depending on its habitat — without at least a centimeter of dense fur, it would ...

If the meat really came from a Megatherium corpse on Akutan Island, this little chunk of 1950s stew could help rewrite the history of Pleistocene-era giant sloths.

The Megatherium Club was an informal group of young naturalists who made the Castle their temporary home in between expeditions to the outer reaches of the United States, or who otherwise worked or ...

Megatherium and other large mammals were the stars of paleontology until the dinosaurs like Megalosaurus and Iguanodon showed them up in the 1840’s.