Scientists have examined the diet of the extinct Giant Sloth Megatherium. Based on analyses of the collagen in the fossil bones, the researchers concluded in their study that Megatherium subsisted on ...

A restoration of Megatherium from H.N. Hutchinson’s Extinct Monsters. For over a century and a half dinosaurs have been the unofficial symbols and ambassadors of paleontology, but this was not always ...

I have a soft spot for giant ground sloths. I think part of that affection comes from this old, stop-motion video on fossil mammals I watched countless times as a kid. Sure, Platybelodon, Glyptodon, ...

Unknown Island has to be one of the crummiest dinosaur movies ever made. Though it came out about 15 years after King Kong debuted, the plot is broadly the same and executed with less skill – young ...

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