At the site of Megatherium excavation in 1927. Image by The Field Museum Library, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons. The story of the giant sloth serves as a poignant reminder of our planet’s ...

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A prehistoric discovery near Hays is shedding some new light on a giant ground sloth species that lived more than 10,000 years ago.

This is where the Florida Museum ... sloths hardly changed at all for about 20 million years, irrespective of their preferred method of locomotion. Then something earth-shattering occurred. A ...

Giant sloths used to roam all over North ... manager of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Ground sloths greatly varied in size. The fairly squat and chunky Shasta ...

Today, sloths are slow-moving ... collection manager of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, says in a statement. In a study published last week in the journal ...

“This matches with the expansion of Homo sapiens, first over the entire American supercontinent, and later in the Caribbean,” he says — which is where some giant sloths lived ...

Giant sloths ... But the larger sloths? “They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger,” Rachel Narducci, collection manager of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural ...

“Given the current evidence, there’s strong support for that,” says Juan Carrillo, a vertebrate paleontologist at the National Museum of ... did turn up giant ground sloth bones bearing ...