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Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial...
mammals and evolved during the Pleistocene from the ancestral brown bear through divergent evolution. Sloth bears breed during spring and early summer and give...
(which means "lame foot"), Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) and Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni), were formerly believed...
Megatherium (redirect from Giant ground sloth)(μέγα) 'great' + theríon (θηρίον) 'beast') is an extinct genus of ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the Early Pliocene through the...
three-toed sloths are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, the southern maned sloth, and the pygmy three-toed sloth. In complete...
The pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus), also known as the monk sloth or dwarf sloth, is a species of sloth in the family Bradypodidae. The species...
related to sloths. This clade has been dubbed the ‘‘sloth lemurs’’ because of remarkable postcranial convergences with South American sloths. Despite postcranial...
Megalonyx (redirect from Jefferson's ground sloth)extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae, native to North America. It evolved during the Pliocene Epoch and became extinct during at...- The brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus) is a species of three-toed sloth found in the Neotropical realm of Central and South America. It is the...
Thalassocnus (redirect from Aquatic sloth)Thalassocnus is an extinct genus of semiaquatic ground sloths from the Miocene and Pliocene of the Pacific South American coast. It is monotypic within...
southern maned sloth (Bradypus crinitus) is a three-toed sloth species. The southern maned sloths have flatter skulls, rounder jaws, and wider cheekbones...
Pilosa (section Origins and taxonomy)mammals, native to the Americas. It includes anteaters and sloths (which include the extinct ground sloths). The name comes from the Latin word for "hairy"...
The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the...
Nothrotheriidae (redirect from Nothrotheriid ground sloth)Nothrotheriidae is a family of extinct ground sloths that lived from approximately 17.5 mya—10,000 years ago, existing for approximately 17.49 million...
Paramylodon (redirect from Harlan's Ground Sloth)Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, living...- List of pilosans (redirect from List of sloths)Members of this order are called pilosans, and include anteaters and sloths. They are found in South and Central America, generally in forests, though...
Anteater (redirect from Evolution of anteaters)known for eating ants and termites. The individual species have other names in English and other languages. Together with sloths, they are within the order...
Megalocnidae (category Prehistoric sloths)anatomy of their limbs, that Neocnus and Acratocnus were likely climbing animals. The taxonomy of Caribbean sloths is in flux, with the number of species...
Eremotherium (redirect from Panamerican Ground Sloth)or "desert beast": ἔρημος "steppe or desert" and θηρίον "beast") is an extinct genus of giant ground sloth in the family Megatheriidae. Eremotherium lived...
Georges Cuvier (redirect from Cuvier (taxonomy))name as a "mastodon", and that a large skeleton dug up in present-day Argentina was of Megatherium, a giant, prehistoric ground sloth. He also established...
- and may be called the anatomical epoch, because, through the labors of Cuvier and his great English pupil and successor, Richard Owen, the taxonomic studies
- trinities, quarterings, or any “objective” basis for human taxonomies; most of our chosen schemes, and our designated numbers of categories, record human choices
- sinksepot: armadillo, spec=Xenarthra Cingulata old=napot foksepot: sloth, tree sloth, spec=Xenarthra Folivora, old=nepot verksepot: anteater, spec=Xenarthra