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Giant Sloths the Size of Elephants Once Walked Along the Ground. Here's How the Massive Animals Evolved and Declined
Today, sloths are slow-moving, tree-dwelling creatures that live in Central and South America and can grow up to 2.5 feet ...
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The Tooth Of A Prehistoric Giant Ground Sloth Was Just Found During The Construction Of A Road In Texas
Ahead of a road construction project in Lubbock, Texas, the state's Department of Transportation sent archaeologists to ...
10-foot-tall sloths with ‘large’ teeth roamed modern-day Kansas. Now bones found
They had “very large claws on their forelimbs” and were “covered in thick hair,” the Illinois State Museum said.
Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong
Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.
8,000-pound sloths once roamed North America. Where’d they go?
The extinct mammals were about five times larger than a grizzly bear–and filled caves with their poop.
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Prehistoric ground sloth bones uncovered in Lubbock, TxDOT says
According to a news release from TxDOT, an archeological survey in Lubbock unearthed the bones of prehistoric animals called ...
Prehistoric sloth remains uncovered near Lubbock as work starts on Loop 88
During an environmental review for Loop 88 construction, officials discovered large, prehistoric animal bones, including a ...
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10-foot-tall sloths with ‘large’ teeth roamed modern-day Kansas. Now bones found
Bones from an extinct ground sloth that stood between 8 and 10 feet tall were found in Kansas. Photo from the Illinois State Museum. At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 ...