Smithsonian Magazine

This Giant Carnivore Ran on Hooves. Scientists Are Investigating Its Massive Skull and Crushing Teeth to Decipher the Beast’s True Nature

For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to ...
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SECRETS OF THE DEAD: Graveyard Of The Giant Beasts

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, July 7 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 Sixty-five million years ago, a giant meteor hit the earth causing a global ...
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Giant Sloths and Many Other Massive Creatures Were Once Common on Our Planet. With Environmental Changes, Such Giants Could Thrive Again

The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant shuffled across the woodlands of the ancient Americas between 60,000 and five ...