Giant ground sloth The giant sloth, also known as the megalonyx, which is Greek for giant claw, lived from the Miocene – modern time period or from 10 million to about 10,000 years ago. They lived in the woodlands of north America. And seven facts about this type of is the diet, classification, popularity, habitat, predators, extinction and size, First, the giant sloth was omnivorous with a diet consisting of moderately to soft tough food and ate yuccas and common grasses. The sloth had blunt teeth that couldn’t chew meat. And it used its huge dangerous claws to strip the bark off of the trees. The giant sloth didn’t have much to do much hunting it so it didn’t need that many predatorily attributes. Many sloths had giant claws in order to dig up bugs in order to eat them. Second, Giant sloths are classified as Chordata, Mammalia, Xenarthra, pilosa, megatheriddae. Animals that belong to the class Chordata possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve chord and a …show more content…
Lived in places like brazil and north America. Where the desired resources are plentiful and readily available. This allowed the giant ground sloths to thrive in these environments and create a bigger population of themselves, but even though they were very large in size they could still fall prey to other animals in that biome animals in groups, such as wolves bears and even some humans. They also stayed in large groups to decrease the risk of being attacked, but some were still taken down by even larger