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Giants in the Earth: The Paleoburrows

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Is This the Biggest Ground Sloth?

The ermotherium was a giant ground sloth that would have lived four point nine million years ago to around 11 thousand years ago. They reached heights of 20 feet, or six meters, and they probably weighed roughly four tons. This particular guy would have been as big as an elephant. And i hope that if at's some point they, they, that they change anything in that exhibit, they keep the sloth. Keep it dirty. Keep it on display.

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