Tag: Ground Sloths

Ferocious Mammals, New Dinosaurs, and Sliced up Ground Sloths: July 2023 in Paleontology

Post author By maxsblogosaurus
Post date July 30, 2023
6 Comments on Ferocious Mammals, New Dinosaurs, and Sliced up Ground Sloths: July 2023 in Paleontology

To say July 2023 has been a crazy month for paleontology would be underselling it.

Tags Dinosaurs, fossils, Ground Sloths, Nature, New Species, Paleontology, prehistory, Pterosaurs

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The Crossroads of History: America’s Great Biotic Interchange

Post author By maxsblogosaurus
Post date June 17, 2022
3 Comments on The Crossroads of History: America’s Great Biotic Interchange

Millions of years ago, Central America became an almost unparalleled highway for organism migration.

Tags Cenozoic, fossils, Great American Biotic Interchange, Ground Sloths, Nature, Paleontology, Prehistoric, prehistory, Sabretooth Cats

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Avocados & Giants: Companionship Through Life and Death

Post author By maxsblogosaurus
Post date September 26, 2021
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Is there a connection between the avocados in your guacamole and extinct giant ground sloths? The answer may surprise you.

Tags avocados, Cenozoic, elephants, Extinction, fossils, Ground Sloths, Nature, palaeontology, Paleontology, Pleistocene, Prehistoric, prehistory

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The Fascinating Ancestry of the Sloth

Post author By maxsblogosaurus
Post date July 16, 2020
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While sloths today are lethargic tree-dwellers, their ancestors were different beasts entirely. But what happened to these wonderful animals? And what does Thomas Jefferson have to do with them?

Tags Alaska, Argentina, Brazil, Cenozoic, Chile, Ground Sloths, Megalonyx, Megatherium, palaeontology, Paleontology, Peru, Plistocene, Prehistoric, prehistory, South America, Thalassocnus, USA