What are sloths?

Ground sloths are large ground mammals who lived from the early oligocent (about 35 million years ago) until the recent 1550 NL on the Caribbean Islands Hispanol and Cuba. The largest, megatherium, whose name means a "big animal", weighed up to five tons, the weight of the African bull of the elephant and was too big to have some predators. It stands upright, it would be 20 ft (6 m) tall, making him the largest mammal he ever knew he was walking on the ground. Ground sloths lived in northern and South America. Unlike most herbivores, they had large, pointed claws that could be used to remove leaves from trees and send any future predators. Their claws were so huge that they had to go to the side. In another adaptation that protects them from predators, ground sloths had very strong skin and fur. Would also helped them during the last ice age and, unlike some other large mammals, survived the Ice Age and only afterwards.

As well as many extinct animals, ground sloths are often subject to work on cryptozoology that claims that the animal was observed in historical times in Argentina or elsewhere. This myth may result from the fact that land sloths have disappeared so recently that their subfosilized droppings can be found in caves and in some rare cases, well -preserved subfossile remnants of the animal itself. It seems likely that there will be enough bottom in these specimens, that the ground sloth of the bottom will eventually be sequential and studied as a whole.

land sloths were probably hunted to extract people on the mainland around the end of the last ice age, as well as many other large animals around the world. Before their historical expedition, Presidents Lewis and Clark, President Jefferson was ordered to look for ground sloths in the Western United States, but were never located.