{"id":850808,"date":"2025-05-24T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/new-research-sheds-light-on-emergence-and-demise-of-giant-sloths\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:12:00","slug":"new-research-sheds-light-on-emergence-and-demise-of-giant-sloths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/new-research-sheds-light-on-emergence-and-demise-of-giant-sloths\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Sheds Light on Emergence and Demise of Giant Sloths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The largest sloths &#8212; members of the genus Megatherium &#8212; were about the size of Asian bull elephants and weighed roughly 3.63 tons (8,000 pounds).<br \/>\nThe post New Research Sheds Light on Emergence and Demise of Giant Sloths appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/giant-sloths-13934.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>News Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The largest sloths &#8212; members of the genus Megatherium &#8212; were about the size of Asian bull elephants and weighed roughly 3.63 tons (8,000 pounds). The post New Research Sheds Light on Emergence and Demise of Giant Sloths appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;Read MoreNews Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3801,536,23104],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-850808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-research","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-sheds"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}