It's scientific name, megatherium americanum, means 'great beast from America'. They were up to 10 times the size of modern sloths reaching weights of up to four tonnes.

Many of these ancient sloths didn’t live in trees at all. They were simply too large. The biggest of them, known as Megatherium, reached the size of modern-day Asian elephants and tipped the scales at ...

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Giant Ground Sloth (Megatherium americanum) There are no plans as yet to recreate this species. However, I’ve seen some of our scientists watching attentively and taking notes when I sit down to lunch ...