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Four species of ground sloths inhabited the United States at the end of the last Ice Age. These were Jefferson's ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii), Laurillard's ground sloth (Eremotherium laurillardi), the Shasta ground sloth (Nothrotheriops shastensis), and Harlan's ground sloth (Glossotherium harlani).
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www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/sloth.html
www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/sloth.html
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10,000 years ago humans had reached the very southern tip of South America, where in present day Chilean Patagonia they shared a cavern with the giant sloth whose bones Charles Darwin discovered in the 1830's. The creatures portrayed there may have been giant sloth.
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www.crystalinks.com/sloth.html
www.crystalinks.com/sloth.html
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Ground sloth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. Their most recent survivors lived in the Antilles, where it has been proposed they may survived until 1550 ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_sloth
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Megatherium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Megatherium ("Great Beast") was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths that lived from two million to 8,000 years ago. A related genus was Nothrotheriops , which were primarily bear-sized ground s...
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The giant ground sloth was one of the enormous creatures that thrived during the ice ages. Looking a little bit like an oversized hamster it probably fed on leaves found on the lower branches of trees or bushes.
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www.unmuseum.org/sloth.htm
www.unmuseum.org/sloth.htm
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Giant ground sloths like the one favored by a group of 19th-century Smithsonian scientists are on display in the National Museum of Natural History.
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www.150.si.edu/chap3/3sloth.htm
www.150.si.edu/chap3/3sloth.htm
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When it lived during the late ice age, the adult giant sloth weighed about 3 tons and reached a height of about nine feet on all fours and about 20 feet it stood upright on its back legs. It probably had long, coarse reddish-brown hair and foot-long irretractable claws that forced it to walk on the sides of its hands.
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www.libs.uga.edu/science/sloth.html
www.libs.uga.edu/science/sloth.html
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Giant ground sloth; Eremotherium laurillardi ... Diet; Giant ground sloths were herbivores. From the preserved dung of other species of ground sloth it seems they were not fussy eaters and munched through all parts of plants and trees, fruits, leaves and twigs.
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www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3002.shtml
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