#groundsloth — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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).

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