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 ...

S. leptocephalum was one of the smaller, more gracile ground sloths of the Pleistocene, weighing around 500 to 1,000 kilogrammes in weight, around the size of a large buffalo. It had a narrow, tubular ...

Jefferson’s ground sloths are large, extinct, plant-eating mammals. At full size, they were about the size of an ox, up to three meters long, and weighed 2,200-2,425 pounds. These three-toed sloths ...

The "amazing discovery" of a sloth's hip bone and a fragment of a bison's radius bone was made about 16ft (5m) below ground in Park Mesa Heights. Scientists say the Harlan's Ground Sloth could ...

The sloth is the world's slowest mammal ... dragging their bellies across the ground. If caught on land, these animals have no chance to evade predators, such as big cats, and must try to defend ...

Matheus Fernandes In a dusty rock shelter in Santa Elina, Brazil, two layers of giant ground sloth bones have been swallowed into the earth. The oldest sloth fossils in the deposit date back ...

Natural Trap Cave near Lovell is one of the best Ice Age fossil sites in the world, but its lack of saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths ...