Visitors at the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science on Market Street have long been greeted by a large skeleton. Here's where it's going next.

Visit with Wilmington's giant ground sloth, soon to be on the move A replica skeleton of a giant ground sloth unearthed in Wilmington in 1991 is on display at the Cape Fear Museum, but will soon be ...

Many thousands of years ago, the Sarasota-Manatee area was home to a diverse mix of now-extinct mammals—most notably, saber-tooth cats, mastodons and giant ground sloths called Megatherium, which ...

A Manatee County utilities crew was digging a trench recently when it unearthed something unexpected: a fossilized giant ground sloth claw that had been buried in more than 11,000 years ago. According ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are ...