Thousands of years ago, ground sloths as massive as elephants roamed the Americas. Their history, marked by spectacular adaptations, came to an abrupt end with the arrival of humans. A recent study ...

In the system, underwater archaeologists found the 15,000-year-old remains of giant sloths, proto-elephants called gomphotheres, and bears, as well as an elaborate shrine to the Maya god of war ...

Another amazingly huge creature was the megatherium. It is an extinct species of giant ground sloth. It's scientific name, megatherium americanum, means 'great beast from America'.

During ice ages, the large size of ground sloths gave them an advantage against the cold. But 15,000 years ago, their decline accelerated, coinciding with human arrival in America.

Pleistocene ground sloths constitute a remarkable and diverse group of xenarthran mammals that thrived across South America during a period of significant climatic and environmental flux.

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The likely conclusion is that human hunting drove the extinction of the larger, ground-based sloths, while the smaller ones related to today's creatures escaped by taking to the trees.

Mastodons moved with the forest and ended up south of the ice sheets. According to the fossils left behind, Jefferson’s ground sloths and giant beavers went with them. And they never came back.

Many of these mammoths and mastodons were huge, well over 1,000kg, but they were not alone. There were 16 types of ground sloths (one nearly as tall as a modern African elephant), giant marsupials ...

More than 10,000 years ago, a group of prehistoric humans stalked a 10-ton mammoth through moist grassland near what is now Naco. Then, in a bold move, the humans attacked ...

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