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One of world's oldest two-toed sloths dies at Peoria Zoo
A 47-year-old Hoffman’s two-toed sloth housed at the Peoria Zoo was euthanized this week, the zoo announced Friday. In recent years, Dustin experienced a number of age-related health challenges ...
The Sun6d
Four-ton mega-sloths with flesh-rending claws ‘lived alongside humans for 10,000 years…& we used their bones as jewels’
FOUR-ton mega-sloths with flesh-rendering claws lived alongside humans for 10,000 years, new research has found. The 20ft tall meat eating beasts were thought to have been wiped out quickly when ...
The Boston Globe6d
Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest
SAO PAULO — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time ...
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Giant sloths, mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest
Sloths weren't always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws.Video above ...