How to Use ground sloth in a Sentence

ground sloth

noun
  • Mastodons and ground sloths were rare in the region, too.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
  • So did the dire wolf, the mammoth and the giant ground sloth.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Tracks of mammoths, giant ground sloth, dire wolves and birds are all present at the site as well.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Sep. 2021
  • In this case, the analysis revealed the giant ground sloth ate meat as well as plants.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That might sound strange, given the lack of enormous dinosaurs or giant ground sloths trundling around.
    — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
  • Mammoths and a giant ground sloth crossed the tracks in the travelers’ wake, trampling some of the footprints.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Other species recovered from the cave, including mastodons and ground sloths, are rare in the region.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The features of the lines, though, do not match with marks often made by mammoths dragging their trunks or ground sloths dragging their tails on the ground.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Smilodon, a saber-toothed cat around the size of today’s African lion, skulked across the grasslands in search of ground sloths and mammoths.
    — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Extinct megafauna like the mammoth and ground sloth weren’t just hapless prey or passive victims of climate change.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Made of plastic resin, the new 8-foot-tall ground sloth skeleton with an outstretched set of claws dominates the center's floor space.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Remains of ancient animals have been found in a cave near the lake, including ground sloth, horse, camel and mountain sheep, the park says.
    — Mark Price, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Joshua trees were once dispersed across landscapes with help from elephant-sized giant ground sloths, a finding based on the abundance of seeds found in fossilized dung.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Joshua trees were once dispersed across landscapes with help from ancient pack rats and elephant-size giant ground sloths, a finding based on the abundance of seeds found in fossilized dung.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Giant ground sloths didn’t perform the same ecological functions as the other herbivores that shared their landscape.
    — Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Our new analyses revealed contrasting dental wear signatures between the two co-occurring ground sloth species.
    — Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The Harlan’s ground sloth, the larger of the two, had microwear patterns dominated by deep pitlike textures.
    — Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The clincher, however, may be trackways at the site that include human footprints inside the larger footprints of the giant ground sloths.
    — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But the teeth of giant ground sloths lack enamel, the highly inorganic and hard outer layer on most animal teeth – including our own.
    — Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Their presence, though, could tell paleontologists more about how giant ground sloths behaved and socialized.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The largest burrows, however, were likely made by giant ground sloths, extinct cousins of modern sloths that could grow to more than 1,700 pounds.
    — National Geographic, 7 May 2018
  • No fossil evidence suggests that a giant ground sloth ever composed a symphony or that a Devonian fish split the atom even once.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Instead, both ground sloths partitioned their niches and played complementary ecological roles.
    — Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In contrast, the Shasta ground sloth exhibited dental microwear textures more akin to those in leaf-eating and woody plant-eating herbivores.
    — Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The lake and its lush surrounding vegetation attracted not only humans but also many now-extinct species such as plant-eating ancient camels, mammoths and ground sloths.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • For example, the giant ground sloth identified by Iriarte and his colleagues could in fact be a capybara -- a giant rodent common today across the region.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Discoveries included a giant ground sloth’s claw and ancient camel bones, but the pampathere was particularly striking.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Their tracks are preserved in the alkali flats of the valley floor—mammoth, dire wolf, saber-toothed cat, North American camel, and giant ground sloth, all dating back to the last ice age.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 3 July 2018
  • In the Cenozoic era, prehistoric megafauna like mammoths and giant ground sloths would gobble the fruit whole and then travel long distances, before pooping out the seed and thus dispersing the trees.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 28 July 2017
  • Plus, some of its displays are wildly outdated — such as the creaky animatronic saber-toothed tiger that is forever devouring a giant ground sloth, its tinny roar on permanent loop.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019

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