New Research Sheds Light on Emergence and Demise of Giant Sloths

New Research Sheds Light on Emergence and Demise of Giant Sloths

The largest sloths -- members of the genus Megatherium -- were about the size of Asian bull elephants and weighed roughly 3.63 tons (8,000 pounds). The post New Research Sheds Light on Emergence and Demise of Giant Sloths appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

Paleontologist Aldo Manzuetti works around what, for expert eyes, is a fossilized bone between sand and sediments in the Uruguayan resort Kiyú (south). His colleague Daniel Perea waits, beak in hand, to clear the area of what could be the fossil of a sloth of about 8 million years old.