Long before modern sloths became slow-moving tree dwellers, their ancestors were enormous ground beasts. These ancient sloths stood as tall as elephants and weighed several tons. Fossil evidence shows ...

This is true of the bizarre fruit Eremotherium can be seen eating in the series, the very cannonball-like fruit of the cannonball tree. Said to smell a bit like a skunk, its blueish-white flesh is ...

A utility crew digging a trench in Florida came across a fossilized part of an 11,000-year-old giant ground sloth that was originally named by Thomas Jefferson. The team in Florida’s Manatee County ...