Happy International Sloth Day

Bit creepy.
Image credit aiunau.org.

Today is International Sloth Day, apparently (Sloth Day is on the 19th, not, as NatGeo would have you believe, the 20th), so in honour of the occasion, here are abridged versions of four lesser-known (and one very famous) cryptozoological exploits through history relating to ground sloths. As we will see, ground sloths have had a very important place in palaeontological history. Most of these will eventually get their own blog entries.

Giants in Patagonia

Image credit www.naturalheightgrowth.com.

The word "Patagonia" - which is, in case anyone was unaware, a South American region near Chile and Argentina - actually comes from the name of a (sort-of) cryptid.