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Bear-Sized Snow Sloths? Meet Megalonyx, The Ice Age Giants That Lived Until 13,000 Years Ago

An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...
NBC Los Angeles

Giant sloths, those unhurried Ice Age icons, are the stars of summer at the La Brea Tar Pits

We're often advised to "kick back," "chill out," or "slow down" when summer begins, as well as other reminders to savor the year's most golden stretch in an easygoing, unstressed sort of way. Stream ...
The Durango Herald

Fossilized footprints tell tale of Ice Age sloth hunt in New Mexico

WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT – Researchers studying a trail of fossilized footprints on a remote New Mexico salt flat have determined the tracks tell the story of a group of Ice Age hunters stalking ...