ground sloth

noun

: any of various often huge extinct American edentates related to the recent sloths

Examples of ground sloth in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web However, roughly 10,000 years ago, giant ground sloths disappeared from the geological record. —

Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024 Facts About One of the Biggest Sharks in History Other ground sloths employed strange defensive measures. —

Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024 At this site, abundant stone tools are intermixed with the fossils of the extinct ground sloth Glossotherium phoenesis, which grew to be 10 to 13 feet long and weighed 1.1 to 1.6 tons. —

Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023 The lake and its lush surrounding vegetation attracted not only humans but also many now-extinct species such as plant-eating ancient camels, mammoths and ground sloths. —

Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for ground sloth

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