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The giant ancestors of today’s sloths stood 10 feet tall and ate meat, a new study found – Business Insider Australia

By studying hair from giant prehistoric sloths called mylodons, experts have discovered the animals scavenged for meat in addition…

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An artistic reconstruction of the South American giant ground sloth feeding on the carcass of a prehistoric herbivore related to modern llamas. Jorge Blanco
We think of sloths as slow-moving, gentle leaf eaters. But the ancestors of these small, herbivorous…

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