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	Sloth - Crystalinks
		Even so, leaves provide little energy, and sloths deal with this by a range of economy measures: they have very low metabolic rates (less than half of that expected for a creature of their size), and maintain low body temperatures when active (30 to 34 degrees Celsius), and still lower temperatures when resting.
		Eremotherium eomigrans, as named in a recent academic journal article, was the earliest of the giant sloths known as megatheres to have migrated from South America north across the Panamanian Land Bridge, Webb said.
		While all other giant sloths had four fingers with only two or three claws, this one had five fingers, four of them with large claws, the biggest being nearly a foot long, he said."The existence of such sloths would have been expected at a much earlier time, and in South America, not Florida," he said.
	www.crystalinks.com /sloth.html (1159 words)

	Two-Toed Sloth - choloepus hoffmanni
		Sloths do have cheek teeth but are lacking incisors and canines and also make use of their hard lips to help tear at foraged food.
		Sloths are excellent living examples of evolutionary adaptation by a species to the canopy of the forest.
		Sloths fur is tan to greyish brown in color, shaggy with a coarse outer fur grading to softer, finer layers of underfur.
	www.tigerhomes.org /animal/two-toed-sloth.cfm (682 words)

	SDNHM Fossil Mysteries Field Guide: Giant ground sloth
		Giant ground sloths have to be among the strangest mammals that ever walked on Earth.
		Unlike living tree sloths, the extinct sloths were large, ponderous animals that presumably spent all their time on the ground.
		Ground sloths were able to stand up on their hind legs, in order to reach the leaves and twigs they wanted to eat.
	www.sdnhm.org /exhibits/mystery/fg_giantsloth.html (885 words)

	North American Ground Sloth
		When it lived during the late ice age, the adult giant sloth weighed about 3 tons and reached a height of about nine feet on all fours and about 20 feet it stood upright on its back legs.
		About 350 bones from three giant sloths were found at the Brunswick site but many were duplicates or were unusable and Brantley did not have all 208 bones necessary for one complete skeleton.
		Two other giant North American sloth skeletons are on display at the Smithsonian Institution and one skeleton -- found in Georgia in the last century -- is at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Brantley said.
	www.libs.uga.edu /science/sloth.html (581 words)

	Xenarthra.Org - Ancient Sloths
		Giant ground sloths' claws were also suited for digging and ripping up the vegetation that it used for food.
		Giant ground sloths also apparently walked upon the sides of their feet when traveling from place to place: a condition called a "pedolateral" foot.
		It is possible that the ground sloths' numbers dwindled over time due to a combination of climate changes, predators (including early humans), and the inability to effectively compete for food and resources.
	www.xenarthra.org /sloth/ground (602 words)

	EdentatesandPangolins (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sloths are bumblers and lackwits, but not in any way mean or nasty (well, most smell nasty, but they don't mean to hurt anybody by it).
		Sloths are HUGE - even in Human form, slumped over till their arms almost drag the ground, they can be over ten feet tall.
		Sloths also give their feces directly to the Earthnet, once per week - it is said that even their poo is magically potent.
	home.earthlink.net /~bjoeledbetter/worldstree/Weres/EdentatesandPangolins.htm (524 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Giant ground sloth
		Giant ground sloths were some of the strangest mammals ever to have lived and resembled no other animal.
		From the preserved dung of other species of ground sloth it seems they were not fussy eaters and munched through all parts of plants and trees, fruits, leaves and twigs.
		Ground sloths did have bones in their throat which allowed them to vocalise and it is thought that they may have called to each other.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3002.shtml (356 words)

	Giant Anteaters \| Animal Facts \| Fresno Chaffee Zoo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Giant Ground Sloths made it to North America across the Land Bridge that formed between North and South America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama) with the uplifting of Volcanic islands.
		Several species of Giant Sloths are represented in the fossil record found at the Fairmead Dig in the Madera County Land Fill.
		Giant anteaters dig a depression and curl up in it, covering themselves with their brush tail.
	www.fresnochaffeezoo.com /animals/giantAnteater.html (957 words)

	Epiphytes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most of their relatives, the giant ground sloths of the Tertiary period, became extinct quite recently, and only the specialized sloths survive today as the tip of a once diverse evolutionary lineage.
		Sloths spend almost all their lives up in the canopy, but once a week, the three-toed sloth (genus Bradypus), descends to the base of its tree to defecate.
		Sloths are found only in the rainforests of Central and South America and have not real counterparts in Africa and Southeast Asia.
	www.evergreen.edu /ican/outreach/ngs/Sloths.htm (468 words)

	Sloth Anatomy, Behavior and Diet
		Three-Toed Sloths are one of the few small mammals that not only exist but seem to flourish on a diet of leaves and have notoriously slow digestive systems.
		Sloths have adapted so well to the tree-top canopy they feed, sleep, reproduce and live their days nestled high up in the trees.
		Sloths have one of the most variable body temperatures of any mammal, fluctuating daily and ranging anywhere from a low of 24°C to a high of 33°C (74°F - 92°F).
	www.tigerhomes.org /animal/sloth-anatomy-behavior.cfm (723 words)

	Brown Throated three-toed sloth
		While the three-toed sloth is said to eat mainly the leaves of the Cecropia tree or lianas leaves, the two-toed sloth will eat a variety of foods in its habitat.
		The two-toed sloth, a close relative of the three-toed sloth is identified as part of the family Megalonychidae, which recognizes two species Cholepus hoffmanni (Peters 1859), and Choloepus didactylus (Linne 1758).
		Three ancestral ground sloth families are said to have once existed; Megatheriidae the South American giant ground sloth whose ancestors were arboreal, and the Megalonychidae and Mylondontidae which were always terrestrial ground sloths.
	bss.sfsu.edu /geog/bholzman/courses/fall99projects/sloth.htm (3017 words)

	Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
		The Giant anteater has a long, thin tongue that it uses to extract ants from their mound.
		The Giant anteater can be found in large parts of southern Central America and the northern and central parts of South America.
		A keen sense of smell is critical for the Giant anteater.
	www.thebigzoo.com /Animals/Giant_Anteater.asp (265 words)

	Demise of Atlantis and the Pleistocene Extinction
		The horse is merely the tip of the iceberg: giant tortoises living in the Caribbean Sea, the giant sloth, the sabre-toothed tiger, the glyptodont and toxodon.
		Woolley rhinoceros, mastodons, glyptodonts, toxodons, giant beavers, giant jaguars, giant ground sloths and scores of other entire species were all totally wiped out at the end of the Pleistocene.
		Whole mastodons, toxodons, giant sloths and other animals were found in Venezuela quick-frozen among the mountain glaciers (Berlitz, 1969), while massive piles of mastodon and sabre-toothed tiger bones were discovered in Florida (Valentine, 1969).
	www.atlantisquest.com /Paleontology.html (1854 words)

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		Giant Cement Co., which has an active limestone quarrying operation, has temporarily ceased mining in this area of the quarry in order to allow this scientific pursuit to continue.
		In addition to the tooth enamel of a mastodon, the bones of "ground sloths, horses, giant armadillos, sabertooth cats and two kinds of camels are in abundance,'' says Knight, who is leading a dig that includes paleontologists from the Smithsonian and several universities in the South.
		Knight is excited by all of the discoveries at the Giant Cement quarry, but is most delighted with the finding of two sabertooth cat skulls, ''because few animals from the Pleistocene are as scary or as lethal as the saber cats.
	www.thetandd.com /articles/2002/11/08/news/news1.prt (676 words)

	Alibris: Sloths
		Sloth plans a birthday party but is afraid no one will come because they don't like his messy house.
		Sparky is a sloth with lots of energy, an annoyance at Sleepy Valley Sloth School until her skills are needed to keep the school from being closed.
		As he grows, the young sloth learns what leaves are best to eat, and where to climb the treetops to bask in the sunshine after frequent rains.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Sloths (769 words)

	FarShores CryptoDimensions News: Hunt Resumes For Giant Sloth
		Prichard set out to find the giant sloth with the hope that there must be some grains of truth behind the local legends.
		Their cousins, the tree sloths, still thrive and there is no scientific reason why their ground cousins should have become extinct: when North and South America were joined, the invasion of species from the north drove many southern species to extinction.
		Giant sloths might once again roam the forests -but this time in Germany.
	farshores.org /csloth.htm (1439 words)

	Giant Anteater :: Saint Louis Zoo
		Giant anteaters are the largest of the four anteater species -- up to 50 inches long, plus another 25 to 35 inches for the fan-like tail.
		Giant anteaters have also been known to grab an attacker, crushing it with their powerful front limbs.
		Giant anteaters are in danger of extinction in the wild.
	www.stlzoo.org /animals/abouttheanimals/mammals/anteatersslothsarmadillos/giantanteater.htm (993 words)

	Fossil Record of the Xenarthra
		The oldest fossils of ground sloths are of the family Meg atheriidae, found in Oligocene deposits in South America.
		In the late Miocene, ground sloths began to spread from South America to the West Indies and southern North America, possibly by rafting across sea barriers as waif immigrants.
		Giant sloth : Above at left, the skull of Glossotherium harlani, a giant ground sloth that roamed southern California in the Pleistocene.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /mammal/xenarthra/xenarthrafr.html (939 words)

	GIANT GROUND SLOTH CANINES CANINE TEETH TOOTH
		Giant ground sloths were so large that they were not able to climb trees, hence their land-roving lifestyle.
		Giant sloths are related to armadillos, sharing similar designs in their blunt, deep skulls as well as their mandibles.
		Sloths could stand on their hind legs aided by a very strong tail, to reach vegetation at levels higher than other herbivores could typically reach.
	www.paleodirect.com /lm13-008.htm (663 words)

	Definition of Giant sloth
		Ground sloths are extinct edentate (Order Xenarthra) mammals that are believed to be relatives of tree sloths and three-toed sloths.
		Two ground sloths are among the animals that were trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits.
		Some extinct ground sloths are more related to today's tree sloths than they are to other ground sloths.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Giant_sloth (810 words)

	"Jurassic Park," eat your heart out - Salon
		Sloths have very low metabolic requirements so they don't need a lot of food or energy to keep them going.
		Yet on Cuba the giant sloths managed to survive until 7,000 years ago, and they happened to go extinct just when people arrive.
		If it was climate change, you've got to explain why is it that every giant sloth between Alaska and Patagonia went extinct 13,000 years ago, except for the ones on Cuba.
	dir.salon.com /story/people/feature/2002/03/07/megafauna/?pn=2 (772 words)

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		The giant ground sloth was one of the enormous creatures that thrived during the ice ages.
		Like other giant creatures that disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene period (about 10,000 years ago), Megatherium, its smaller sloth cousin, Mylodon, and other varieties of the giant sloth are now extinct.
		A competing theory, however, is that as man spread into regions occupied by the giant sloth, he may have hunted them, along with the mammoth and mastodons, to extinction.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /sloth.htm (683 words)

	Giant sloths, and animals that would have been seen by cave men
		Giant Sloths and also animals that went extinct during the period of humanity and cave men
		Giant sloths were a species that lived in the Americas.
		Giant hutias, rodents that weighed 50 KG too 200KG may have continued into the Carribean islands to historic times, but evidence is unsure, they were hunted, They would have not been that different to modern Capybara.
	www.lonympics.co.uk /giantsloths.htm (1295 words)

	Giant Sloths
		The giant sloths, also referred to as the ground sloths, belong to an interesting group of animals found in southern North America, Central America and South America.
		The giant sloths first appeared in South America in the Early Oligocene Epoch (36 to 22.5 million years ago), and they survived up until recent times, only becoming extinct during the Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 million years ago to 10,000 years ago), during the last Ice Age.
		Due to their slow gait, the giant sloths might have been easy prey to some of the Pleistocene Epoch predators, but their powerful forearms and large claws would have been formidable defensive weapons.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/paleontology/85261/1 (401 words)

	SLOTH FAQ : two-toed sloths
		Two-toed sloths are found in Central America, throughout northern South America and in the Amazon basin.
		Two toed sloths are medium-sized animals, with a body slightly more than half a meter in length and weight up to around 9 kg.
		Two-toed sloths are capable of vigorous self defense, using their foreclaws to slash a predator and biting with their enlarged, canine-like cheek teeth.
	www.sloths.co.uk /faq (443 words)

	Darwin \| American Museum of Natural History
		Sloths spend most of their time in the treetops, hanging from their curved claws and eating leaves.
		Extinct ground sloths like the ones Darwin collected were far too big to climb trees—some were the size of elephants.
		Darwin assumed the giant ground sloths instead used their curved claws to pull leafy branches down to them.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/darwin/trip/fabulous.php (272 words)

	SLOTH FAQ : two-toed sloths
		Two-toed sloths are found in Central America, throughout northern South America and in the Amazon basin.
		Two toed sloths are medium-sized animals, with a body slightly more than half a meter in length and weight up to around 9 kg.
		Two-toed sloths are capable of vigorous self defense, using their foreclaws to slash a predator and biting with their enlarged, canine-like cheek teeth.
	sloths.org /faq (467 words)

	Return to the Ice Age - The La Brea Exploration Guide
		Evolving from the tree sloths in South America, ground sloths are very distantly related to anteaters and armadillos.
		Typically, ground sloths walked on the sides of their hind feet and the backs of their forefeet.
		Harlan's ground sloth was the largest and most common of the ground sloths found at Rancho La Brea.
	www.tarpits.org /education/guide/flora/sloth.html (249 words)

	Cryptozoology
		Giant Anaconda by Aaron Justice discusses the legendary Sucuriju Gigante, a giant anaconda-like snake said to inhabit the Amazon jungle.
		Giant Sloth from the Unmuseum discusses this creature and the late nineteenth century reports of its possible continued existence.
		Ground Sloths from the Illinois State Museum discusses the four species of giant ground sloths which inhabited the area now covered by the United States during the last ice age.
	www.pibburns.com /cryptozo.htm (8311 words)

	I Dig Sloths! at UI Museum of Natural History
		About 10,000 years ago, three giant sloths died in what is now southwest Iowa.
		Now teams at the University of Iowa, and across the country, are investigating to confirm that this was a mother and her babies, the first sloth family of its kind ever found, and discover what the Ice Age environment was like and why they died....
		The sloth excavation effort is supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
	www.uiowa.edu /~nathist/Site/sloth (263 words)

	Aetiology: The giant sloths are coming!
		The team found the bones of the juvenile giant sloth just 10 feet away from where adult sloth bones were discovered in 2001.
		Sloths are estimated to have gone extinct about 11,000 to 12,000 years ago.
		Along comes a wandering giant sloth, who tumbles into the exposed gully, and kills himself by landing on his head.
	scienceblogs.com /aetiology/2006/08/ui_sloth.php (924 words)

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