South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, ...

Early humans living in South America carved giant sloth bones into decorative ornaments that may have been worn as jewellery. The discovery also provides new evidence that people arrived in ...

A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores ... these sloths were one of the strangest animals of the ice age. They weighed as much, or more, than the short-faced bear at 1 tonne ...