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Ground Sloth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. The term "ground sloth" is used as a reference for all extinct sloths because of the large size of the earliest forms discovered, as opposed to the extant "tree sloths."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_sloth
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Megatherium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the Middle Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium
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The Majestic Megatherium - ScienceBlogs
For over a century and a half dinosaurs have been the unofficial symbols and ambassadors of paleontology, but this was not always so. It was fossil mammals, not dinosaurs, which enthralled the public during the turn of the 19th century, and arguably the most famous was the enormous ground sloth Megatherium.
http://scienceblogs.com/laelaps/2010/05/18/the-majestic-megatherium/
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Megatherium (Giant Sloth) - About
The prehistoric sloth Megatherium was bigger than an elephant.
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/mesozoicmammals/p/megatherium.htm
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Megatherium americanum - Encyclopedia of Life
Descriptions and articles about Megatherium americanum in the Encyclopedia of Life.
http://eol.org/pages/4471794/details
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You Just Missed the Last Ground Sloths - National Geographic
When did the last of the ground sloths disappear? The standard answer is "about 10,000 years ago". That's the oft-repeated cutoff date for when much of the world's Ice Age megafauna - from mastodons to Megatherium - faded away.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/29/you-just-missed-the-last-ground-sloths/
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Revenge of the Meat-Eating Megatherium - Wired
But maybe the idea of a meat-eating ground sloth isn't that absurd. True, the Unknown Island version was a malformed brute made out of a co-opted gorilla suit, but ground sloths and carnivory have been brought together before.
http://www.wired.com/2011/06/revenge-of-the-meat-eating-megatherium
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Megatherium - Prehistoric-Wildlife
Information about the extinct ground sloth Megatherium and other prehistoric creatures.
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/m/megatherium.html
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Ancient Sloths: 5-Ton Creatures Grew Monstrously Fast
Ancient sloths grew at an incredibly fast rate over time, report researchers who looked at sloths that were living or from the fossil record.
http://www.livescience.com/47764-sloth-evolution.html
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Giant Ground Sloth Extinction in the Americas - About
A news story from researchers at the University of Florida suggests megafaunal extinctions may have been the result of human predation, rather than climate change.
http://archaeology.about.com/od/foodsoftheancientpast/a/cubasloth.htm
