These were home to creatures like mammoths and giant ground sloths.

There is nothing alive today that is anything like a giant ground sloth.

There was the giant ground sloth, which sometimes lumbered around on two legs.

This were the first genetic sequences retrieved from any extinct ground sloth.

Those huge, hairy things we couldn't see too clearly under the trees there, I'm sure they were some kind of ground sloths.

Later the bones were positively identified as that of a giant ground sloth.

These constitute intuitive reasons why ground sloths would have been easy prey for hunters.

Although ground sloths were relatively easy to spot, this did not make hunting them easy.

This was the first reported find of a giant ground sloth in the United States.

The ground sloths may have also walked on their knuckles.