giant sloth
Enormous extinct mammal
Giant sloths were massive ground-dwelling mammals that lived in the Americas until roughly 10,000 years ago.
Unlike their small tree-dwelling descendants, giant sloths walked on the ground and could reach sizes comparable to elephants.
Some species stood on hind legs to browse trees.
Their extinction coincided with human arrival in the Americas.
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- prehistoric creatureAnimal from ancient eras
- extinctNo longer existing
- extinct speciesOrganism with no survivors
- clawsAnimal gripping nails
standing upright · herbivore · ice age · mammoth · cave · fossil · South America · massive · shaggy · fur · lumbering · Pleistocene · La Brea · ground dweller · tree · slow · grazing · bones
- ice age animalswoolly mammoth, mammoth, dire wolf, saber-tooth cat, sabertooth tiger
- prehistoric mammalsmammoth, mastodon, woolly mammoth, saber-toothed cat, dire wolf
- Extinct Animalsdinosaur, dinosaurs, tyrannosaurus, dodo, mammoth
- extinct creaturesdinosaurs, trilobites, ammonites, mammoths, pterosaurs
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils
- giant animalsAfrican elephant, Asian elephant, elephant, blue whale, humpback whale
giant sloththree-toed sloth
Slow arboreal mammal
two-toed sloth · hummingbird · mouse · miniature · elephant
giant slothcheetah
Fastest land animal
peregrine falcon · hare · gazelle · swift · hummingbird
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