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Ground sloths Tree sloths and Sea Sloths An Introduction
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Check out this monthly ASASG webinar! • It's perfect for conservationists, zoo professionals, mammologists and people who love Xenarthrans. • To help xenarthran conservation you can purchase cool merchandise including hoodies, t-shirts, bags, shower curtains and more, here: • https://anteaterslothandarmadillo.cre... • All proceeds benefit our anteater, sloth and armadillo Specialist Group. • Check out our interactive map of ALL xenarthrans here: https://xenarthrans.org/kids-corner/ • (Spanish and Portuguese version will be available later in 2023). • The fossil record of sloths is much more diverse than that of their modern relatives. Extinct sloths ranged in size from as large as modern elephants down to that of a house cat. Unlike the living sloths, ground sloths were not restricted to tropical habitats and sloth fossils have been found as far south as Tierra del Fuego to as far north as the Yukon and even on to some islands in the Caribbean. Different groups of sloths utilized a diversity of habitats including deserts, temperate forests and grasslands so had a variety of diets as some were grazers while others were browsers or mixed feeders, and this is reflected by differences in their anatomy. Our knowledge of fossils sloths is not restricted to their skeletons, but includes mummified skin and nails, coprolites and fossil tracks. • Now retired, Greg McDonald previously worked as a regional paleontologist for the Bureau of Land Management, as the Senior Curator of Natural History in the Washington Museum Management Program, National Park Service, as Paleontology Program Coordinator in the Geologic Resources Division and as the paleontologist at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument. Prior to working for the government, he was Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and collections manager for vertebrate paleontology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History. He earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto, Masters at the University of Florida and Bachelor’s at Idaho State University. His research focuses on the extinct giant ground sloths and their relatives and Plio-Pleistocene mammals of North and South America. He is a co-editor of Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth and a co-author of The White River Badlands – Geology and Paleontology.
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