#groundsloth — Public Fediverse posts
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Eremotherium for #FossilFriday.
This towering giant ground sloth, Eremotherium laurillardi, stands in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Remounted on a custom steel armature during the 2019 renovation of the Hall of Fossils–Deep Time, its external support structure is a piece of engineering artwork in its own right.The animal reportedly contains more than 80% genuine fossil bone and stands 13 feet tall.
#pleistocene #paleontology #iceage #groundsloth #citizenscience
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RE: https://botany.social/@botanyone/116896042577548636
how often do you read an article like this and then ask yourself: "Where are the biggest gaps in the seed-dispersal networks of Pleistocene America, and how can we stuff ground sloths and mastodons into them?"
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Bring back #Jefferson #sloth and #shasta #groundsloth thereby repopulating #Joshua #trees, let alone #kelp-eating #Argentine sloth which should be supported by #surfers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2ocUwjtDo Too bad they were plagued by #vampire #bats in the #cave however my take here https://www.salon.com/2024/08/23/massive-extinction-the-demise-of-darwins-ancient-giant-sloth-has-lessons-for-the-present/ #darwin #science #evolution #wildlife -
🦥 For #FossilFriday this is P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an well-preserved ungual phalanx of Megalonyx jeffersoni (Giant Ground Sloth).
Discovered in the late 1960s in a pile of excavated peat, it remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state and is now in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection.
#Pleistocene #AnokaSandPlain #Megalonyxjeffersoni #Palaeontology #Groundsloth #CitizenScience
Plates: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968).
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This has got to be the most amazing thing I’ve read this week, Evidence is mounting that large sandstone caves in Amazonian South America, large enough to comfortably walk through and the longest with 1,500 metres of tunnels, were carved out by giant ground sloths. Yes, ground sloths!
“The South American palaeoburrows might be the largest ichnofossils known so far.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00216-x
#archeology #palaeontology #MegaFauna #GroundSloth #Brazil #amazon