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hannahcomb.bsky.social
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
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
December 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
preservedremains.bsky.social
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.
October 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
lostbones.bsky.social
🦥 #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
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.
October 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
thepizzaisfree.bsky.social
Groundsloth physique + Mule Deer temperament = The Grinda
September 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
longtail.news
Feed: "Effective Altruism Forum"
By: groundsloth on Tuesday, September 23, 2025
A Simple Case for Patient Philanthropy
As effective philanthropists, we are concerned with where to deploy our scarce resources to do the most good. We are also faced with a questi…
forum.effectivealtruism.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
monkeysauce.bsky.social
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
July 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
jenniferauh.bsky.social
#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.
#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
July 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
voxrox.bsky.social
#Illinois #USA
#Chicago
#FieldMuseum of
#NaturalHistory
#Prehistoric
#GroundSloth
#Megatherium
#Skeleton
#Reconstructed
#LargestLandMammal
#Armadillos & #Anteaters are
related.
#Science
#Paleontology
#Photography
May 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
coffinzart.bsky.social
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
May 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
floridianfauna.bsky.social
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
April 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
alicemcplan.bsky.social
Every Monday I post my #AlphabetSuperset #WeeklyChallenge
❤️ Theme: Powerful and inspiring women in science, art and other endeavors
🤩 Featured today: P - Bertha Parker
🎨 Tools: watercolors
#AlphabetSupersetArt #ArtChallenge #ArtYear #Watercolor
In a black and white frame with the head letter P in the corner, a two page spread of various elements related to the woman featured today (Bertha Parker). All elements are created with watercolor and watercolor pencils. Several pieces of art scattered around. Grey scale picture of Bertha in her expeditions (gypsum cave). South west museum casa de Adobe in Los Angeles, hosing the Giant Groundsloth skulls found by Bertha Yewas Parker, anthropologist. As the first Indigenous archaeologist, Bertha Parker made important contributions to the field. While excavating in Gypsum cave, she found the skull of a ground sloth near tools used by humans. The discovery suggested that humans and the sloth lived in the cave 10,000 years ago - the earliest evidence of humans in America at the time.
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
wildfiretupelo.bsky.social
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
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
April 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
tragicmammal.bsky.social
🦣 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
March 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
nightmaremp.bsky.social
I finally made me a sona.

#sona #mysona #oc #myoc #skeksis #groundsloth
March 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
cathorner.bsky.social
"Walking The Megatherium Bones" #artyear #collage #FebruArty2025 #collageart #fantasy #humor #surrealism #mixmedia #traditionalart #rotogravure #groundsloth #pliocene #pleistocene #dinosaur
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.
February 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
cenofreak88.bsky.social
#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
February 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
slothfultyrant.bsky.social
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.
January 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
slothfultyrant.bsky.social
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
January 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
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
January 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
rabieshaver.bsky.social
#art #rabies #groundsloth
December 18, 2024 at 8:40 PM
slothfultyrant.bsky.social
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
December 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
serpenillus.bsky.social
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
Three studies on Paramylodon showing walking on all fours (top and center) and standing on its back legs (bottom)
November 21, 2024 at 4:44 PM
phytolithologist.bsky.social
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
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM