Prehistoric Mega Sloth. The mega sloth is a three toed sloth mutated by radiation. The term is especially associated with the pleistocene megafauna the land animals often larger than modern counterparts considered archetypical of the last ice age such as mammoths the majority of which in northern eurasia the americas and australia became extinct within the last forty thousand years.
Until the end of the last ice age american cheetahs enormous armadillolike creatures and giant sloths called north america home. The term is especially associated with the pleistocene megafauna the land animals often larger than modern counterparts considered archetypical of the last ice age such as mammoths the majority of which in northern eurasia the americas and australia became extinct within the last forty thousand years. The prototypical prehistoric sloth the giant ground sloth genus name megalonyx pronounced meg ah lah nix was named by future american president thomas jefferson in 1797 after he examined some bones forwarded to him from a cave in west virginia.
The prototypical prehistoric sloth the giant ground sloth genus name megalonyx pronounced meg ah lah nix was named by future american president thomas jefferson in 1797 after he examined some bones forwarded to him from a cave in west virginia.
The researchers suspect that the biggest palaeoburrows were dug by humungous south american ground sloths from the extinct lestodon genus. Megalonyx great claw is the greek name for another of the giant ground sloths. Renato pereira lopes et. The term is especially associated with the pleistocene megafauna the land animals often larger than modern counterparts considered archetypical of the last ice age such as mammoths the majority of which in northern eurasia the americas and australia became extinct within the last forty thousand years.
