Bring back #Jefferson #sloth & #shasta #groundsloth repopulate #Joshua #trees let alone #kelp #Argentine sloth which should be supported by #surfers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2o... Too bad they were plagued by cave #vampire #bats www.salon.com/2024/08/23/m... #darwin #science #evolution #wildlife
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Big guy for Prehistory run (comic I'm working on)! He's a Ground Sloth named Tuff (the rock not the meme </3). He's the announcer for the race the main characters are in.
#furry #feral #sfw #sfwonly #sfwfurry #artist #antiAI #groundsloth #prehistoryrun #pink #prehistoricanimals
Color sketch of a mother and baby Jefferson's ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersoni), from Prehistoric Planet wearing Santa hats sticking their tongues out, eyes wide, wishing the viewer a "Merr Chrismas".
A very Merr Chrismas to all you hoomans out there, from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age's Megalonyx family!
Wishing you a safe and happy holiday!
#PrehistoricPlanet #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge #paleoart #groundsloth #Christmas #meme
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a giant ground sloth chowing down on avocados, straight from the avocado tree. This sloth is twelve feet tall with gorgeous locks of algae-yellow hair all over its body. Its face bears the typical sloth ‘mask’ of dark spots around the eyes and a white muzzle with a wet snuffly nose at the end. The sloth’s mouth is open, bearing two absurdly long upper fangs and equally sharp-looking lower fangs, while an entire avocado gets crushed between its molars. The tree is small compared to the sloth, and planted into an isometric square chunk of prehistoric South American earth. The ground sloth grasps the tree in both of its arms and bends its trunk over one hairy shoulder in order to nab one tricky avocado in its mouth. More plump avocados await the beast’s appetite as they dangle in the tree’s branches. Knowing how fast a sloth goes it’s probably set for a few hours, if not days, of feasting. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
Day 15: Giant Ground Sloth
'Wild avocados depended on ground sloths eating them to survive' may be an oversimplified science meme...but it's cute, so I will draw it
#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #GroundSloth #Pleistocene #SciArt #Avocado #Green #PaleoArt #Megafauna #Sloth #Animal #Nature
Various preserved examples of #Mylodon skin and fur. Mylodon was a giant #groundsloth that went #extinct approx. 10,000 years ago. Examination of the furs revealed that Mylodon was the only type of sloth to have osteoderms imbedded in their skin.
Discovered in the late 1960s by a City of Minneapolis Park Board Department worker in a pile of excavated peat, this individual toe claw remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state and is now in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection.
Plate 2 from: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968). A Claw of Megalonyx (Ground Sloth) from Minnesota. In Volume 1: Paleontology, pp. 1–8.
Plate 1 from: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968). A Claw of Megalonyx (Ground Sloth) from Minnesota. In Volume 1: Paleontology, pp. 1–8.
🦥 #FossilFriday P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an ungual phalanx of #Megalonyxjeffersoni (Giant #GroundSloth). Discovered in a pile of excavated peat, this individual toe claw remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state.
#Pleistocene #Fossil
Unfortunately it was in Florida but they unearthed a giant ground sloth claw while digging a water line. Archeology is cool! Article in time-line previous to this.
#Archeology #groundsloth #prehistory #prehistoric
#GROUNDSLOTH Picture yourself strolling along a meandering stream nestled within a late summer pr and wild flowers wave gently above your head. Now imagine this large creature, cove hair, lumbering past. He's nibbling on the grasses and sedgie grondy near the edge of You're safe. This slow moving gentle giant does not want to you. We's vegetaria
#GROUNDSLOTH
Picture yourself strolling along a meandering stream nestled within a late summer pr and wild flowers wave gently above your head. Now imagine this large creature, cove hair, lumbering past.
#Illinois #USA
#Chicago
#FieldMuseum of
#NaturalHistory
#Prehistoric
#GroundSloth
#Megatherium
#Skeleton
#Reconstructed
#LargestLandMammal
#Armadillos & #Anteaters are
related.
#Science
#Paleontology
#Photography
Meet Aergia
hes one of my newest boys
he is a megatherium!
he slept for a coouple 100 decades and so he has to now in a new age where he has to learn to live in the space around him <3
#furry #fur #sona #fursona #digtal #art #megatherium #groundsloth #sloth
The last animal makes its way into the Floridian Faunas starting roster- Shasta Ground Sloth (Nothrotheriops shastensis) is one of the animals that will be playable when the game first releases
Make sure to keep an eye out for the next update 👀 🐆
#groundsloth #conceptartwork #animalgame #paleoart
Ground sloth skeleton on a pedestal with sign. It reads Harlan's ground sloth Paramylodon harlani At around 1,500 pounds and over nine feet in length, the Harlan's ground sloth was considered a medium-sized ground sloth. The largest species could be nearly 20 feet in length! Sloths' powerful arms and claws may have been used to dig roots and tubers (they were herbivores) and for self-protection. The living relatives of these ancient giants include armadillos and small tree sloths.
The largest animal found in the tar pits, a Columbian mammoth skeleton (Mammuthus columbi) from 1.6 million to 10,000 years ago on a pedestal with a low black fence surrounding it
Section of the wall of dire wolf skulls silhouetted against an illuminated orange background. The dire wolves are the most common animal found in the pits and there are 400 skulls in the total wall display out of the 3,600 individual dire wolfs found in the pits.
A look down into Pit 91, “an active fossil dig where scientists are uncovering everything from small plant seeds to giant ground sloths. From the Viewing Station, you can see deep into Pit 91 where thousands of bones of extinct animals like the western horse, saber-tooth cat, and dire wolf are jumbled together in pools of sticky asphalt.” It is covered in a wooded canopy and its walls are supported by scaffolding
The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum of LA are absolutely incredible! It’s like visiting an amazing native plant collection but for #megafauna 🤯🤯🤯 #labrea #labreatarpits #labreatarpitsmuseum #groundsloth #colombianmammoth #direwolf #tarpit #pit91
🦣 Giant Ground Sloths roamed N. & S. America 🌎 from the Miocene to Ice Age (~20,000 yrs ago).
🥥🌿 They were herbivores, munching leaves & fruit.
Some, like #Megatherium, stood 20' tall! 🦖
Few predators, but early humans 🏹 may have hunted them to extinction. ❄️
#GroundSloth #Miocene #Prehistoric
Two ladies from the 1930s walking a skeleton of a megatherium on a leash. A giant sloth from dinosaur ages. The women are larger and walking through a city.
"Walking The Megatherium Bones" #artyear #collage #FebruArty2025 #collageart #fantasy #humor #surrealism #mixmedia #traditionalart #rotogravure #groundsloth #pliocene #pleistocene #dinosaur
#fossilfriday a spine and pelvis of a Harlan's ground sloth (Paramylodon harlani) found in Buena Park, California. On display in the museum at Ralph Clark Regional Park.
#fossil #orangecounty #prehistoriccalifornia #groundsloth #ralphclarkregionalpark
Looking back at Dececchi et al. (2020), I just realized that the findings in our recent paper on #groundsloth thermal energetics may have more applications for #Tyrannosaurids than I initially realized. Both were getting "metabolic mileage" by using energy saving adaptations.
While we had a decent sample size for our recent paper on #groundsloth physiology and integument, there were a few that unfortunately didn't make the final cut. One such specimen was this #Eremotherium tooth from the Talara tar pits in Peru. #FossilFriday
Alert for all paleoartists!!! if you are interested in ground sloth and how to reconstruct them this is a must read!
#paleoart #sciart #scicomm #paleoartists #groundsloth
After years of waiting, revising, and more waiting, my first peer-reviewed publication has at long last been accepted for publication! Get ready for some #groundsloth talk coming out in the near future! #paleontology #FossilFriday
Three studies on Paramylodon showing walking on all fours (top and center) and standing on its back legs (bottom)
Studies on the large North American ground sloth Paramylodon harlani, which went extinct just around 11,000 years ago
I really love ground sloths and I hope you do too!
#groundsloth #paleoart #sciart #sloth
I just finished working on #Pleistocene #groundsloth #coprolites from a New Mexico cave. So, for #FossilFriday here is a plate of #CalciumOxalate (#CaOx) #phytoliths from said poop. I rarely get to work on CaOx phytoliths and make use of my polarizers so this was a treat! #2is#1
