Learn about a gentle giant which lived in the southeastern U.S. millions of years ago!

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

From the Late Pleistocene archaeological site on the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador, fossils of 22 Eremotherium , a type of ancient sloth were found. Detailed fossil research reveals that the ...

The fossil Eremotherium was from south Georgia. And it was an important one, since it firmly establish the presence of the giant ground sloth, which had previously been unknown in the United States.

The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant shuffled across the woodlands of the ancient Americas between 60,000 and five ...

Eremotherium, which was slightly larger than Megatherium, was the only sloth whose fur coverage might have changed depending on its habitat — without at least a centimeter of dense fur, it would ...

Summary In the Hall of Dinosaurs in the National Museum of Natural History, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Gazin (1904-1995) of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology looking up at the bones of an ...

Host Andrew Davis travels throughout South Carolina to showcase artifacts from South Carolina's earliest days: the skeleton of an Eremotherium giant ground sloth, Edisto's Fig Island Shell Ring ...

The fossils of the Panamerican ground sloths, known as Eremotherium laurillardi, were spotted during this dig. Palaeontologists excavating the site reported stumbled-upon bones belonging to 15 ...

Fossil remains of 22 Ice Age SLOTHS the size of elephants that may have been killed by drinking water contaminated with their own faeces 20,000 years ago are found preserved in asphalt in Ecuador ...

Evidence collected from an ice age boneyard suggests a group of giant ground sloths died wallowing in their own feces, say scientists. In a study published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology ...

Summary In the Hall of Dinosaurs in the National Museum of Natural History, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Gazin (1904-1995) of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology stands to the right of an ...