There's a guided tour, too, if you'd like a museum educator to illuminate the incredible world of Ice Age sloth-a-tude. And if you head just outside the museum to Pits 3, 4, 61/67?

The 10 foot tall Ice Age mammal, known as the Megalonyx jeffersonii, was much bigger than the sloths of today, weighing up to 3,000 pounds. The volunteer diggers expected to find just one skeleton.

The Ice Age brought dramatic shifts in climate, with glaciers advancing and retreating, reshaping continents and ecosystems. Giant ground sloths had to adapt to cooler temperatures, changing ...

‘Ice Age: Collision Course’ ‘Has Jumped the Sloth’ and 7 Other Cold Reviews. Sequel “feels like it was scripted on the back of a beer mat and animated by the folks behind those straight ...

Slow on the heels of last year’s mammoth-naming contest, the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas is looking for a cool new handle for its giant ice age sloth. “Pokey” springs to mind.

A giant ground sloth tooth and other Ice Age era animal remains were discovered during a road project in Lubbock, Texas. The remains, estimated to be 18,000-36,000 years old, are being preserved and ...