ground sloth in English
noun
1
an extinct terrestrial edentate mammal of the Cenozoic era in America, typically of very large size.
In North America these included mammoths and mastodon, giant ground sloths , and glyptodonts.
noun
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1. Aversus Octomylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae , living during the Late Miocene ( Huayquerian )
2. ‘Researchers extracted DNA from this 30,000-year-old ground sloth Coprolite - fossilized dung - in a Nevada desert cave last year.’ ‘But the researchers who study Coprolites, as fossil feces are known, say these dietary waste products can tell us much about dinosaurs and other ancient animals.’