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 ...

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

Paleontologists discovered Duonychus tsogtbaatari from fossils uncovered in 2012. It was a giant, feathered creature adapted ...

Some of the most tantalizing clues come from an archaeological site in central Brazil, called Santa Elina, where bones of ...

Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

The bones were exposed after a landslide occurred at the cliffs above the beach. The fossils have been cleaned and archaeologists have created papier mache of the giant sloth bones. It is believed ...

He and a fellow diver located the giant sloth tooth on their first dive. "When we first went down, I thought 'Ok we'll find a few things,' but it was amazing - there was just so much bone down ...