The Tooth of The First Fossilized Giant Ground Sloth from Belize Exposes its World (4 of 9) (IMAGE)

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The Tooth of The First Fossilized Giant Ground Sloth from Belize Exposes its World (4 of 9)

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This extinct giant sloth could grow to more than four meters in height. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 27th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.T. Larmon at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL, and colleagues was titled, "A year in the life of a giant ground sloth during the Last Glacial Maximum in Belize."

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[Credit: Julie McMahon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]

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