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It's also a clue that when giant sloths did eventually go extinct - some 12,000 years after this particular sloth lived - it was probably because of something more than just changing climates.

Unlike now, most extinct sloths lived on the ground and some were many times larger than modern tree sloths. Mylodon darwinii is the scientific name for a species of extinct giant ground sloth. On ...

The extinct giant ground sloths were some of the only mammals that had digestive systems large enough to process the huge avocado seeds whole. They feasted on the fruit and then dispersed the ...

Fossils found by workers digging a tunnel for a new railway line in Los Angeles have been identified as the remains of a giant ... The sloth and bison species have been extinct for at least ...

The fossilized leg bone of the terror bird went unidentified for almost 20 years. Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest ...

We think of sloths as slow-moving ... age and prior to it was not sufficient to support the many giant herbivores - including prehistoric rhinos, camels, and llamas - that occupied the continent.

Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place ... It is the sheer size of the megatherium that makes it scary. This giant ground sloth lived in South America until about 10,000 years ago and reached ...

“Giant sloths were herbivores ... For a long time, everybody was talking about how megafauna went extinct 11,000 years ago, and humans got to the Americas 13,000 years ago.