Sloths; the new emperors of the internet. Nah, just kidding, they still have a long way to go if they want to beat cats.However, that would’ve not been the case 10,000 years ago, when sloths the size of elephants roamed the Americas!
Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths. We can found several families (with cool names by the way) from over 10,000 years ago. Some names include; Megalonychidae, Megatheriidae, Nothrotheriidae, Mylodontidae, Orophodontidae, Scelidotheriidae, etc.
We can’t really know if they were aggressive creatures since they disappeared over 11,000 years ago in the United States and the first appearances of humans in the land of what is now the U.S appeared around 10,000 years ago.
I wonder if those sloths were as lazy as today’s sloths.