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On September 19, 2008, the official news of this significant fossil discovery was released, and carbon dating from a Haynes Cave sloth scapula was proven a match to the skeleton excavated by John Stuart of Greenbrier County. [1] Since March 2008, the Megalonyx has been the official "state fossil" of West Virginia. [6]
Megalonyx (Greek, "great-claw") is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae, native to North America.It evolved during the Pliocene Epoch and became extinct at the end of the Late Pleistocene, living from ~5 million to ~13,000 years ago. [3]
The cave contains six rooms and is measured at 320 feet (98 m) long by 120 feet (37 m) wide. The cave was first documented by Mark Raymond Harrington in a 1930 edition of Scientific American. [3] [4] Up until about 11,000 BC (11,000 radiocarbon years ago), [5] Gypsum Cave was inhabited by the Shasta ground sloth. [6]
The more moths that make the sloth fur their home, the more the algae can grow, and the greener the sloth fur becomes. The sloth has a perfect disguise, and the algae and the moths have a perfect ...
A sloth was born in Colorado, and zoo officials are calling it a “huge conservation win.” The April 19 birth of the “tiny bundle” marked the fourth baby for two-toed sloth parents ...
Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. They varied widely in size with the largest, belonging to genera Lestodon, Eremotherium and Megatherium, being around the size of elephants. Ground sloths represent a paraphyletic group, as living tree sloths are thought to have evolved from ground sloth ...
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Nothrotheriops is a genus of Pleistocene ground sloth found in North America, from what is now central Mexico to the southern United States. [1] This genus of bear-sized xenarthran was related to the much larger, and far more famous Megatherium, although it has recently been placed in a different family, Nothrotheriidae. [2]