This 11-foot-tall relic of North America's megafauna-filled past could be yours for around half a million dollars, if you manage to outbid all the other sloth-obsessed tycoons.

Sloths aren't your thing? Then perhaps you'd prefer to spend $2.8 million on a set of two dinosaurs. Or $875,000 for a meteorite. Or $60,000 on a giant elephant bird egg.

More than 260 lots of fossils, minerals and other treasures, including the world's largest shark jaw, will be up for bids June 12 in Dallas in one of the biggest natural history auctions ever. Heritage Auctions, which is holding the event, estimates...

Ford is taking aim at two of its biggest competitors with a hybrid and plug-in hybrid based on the C-Max model it sells in Europe. The two cars roll into showrooms next year as part of the automaker’s aggressive plan to triple production of hybrid and electric vehicles by 2013.

The second-largest U.S. automaker has said one in four cars it sells by 2020 will have an electric motor and a big battery of some sort. To reach that goal, Ford will ramp up production of hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles to 100,000 within two years. It is investing $135 million and adding 220 jobs at...