Sentence examples for tree sloth from inspiring English sources

Postcranial remains of Palaeopropithecus had previously been paired with Megaladapis by Guillaume Grandidier, who viewed it as a giant tree sloth, which he named Bradytherium.

Cuvier made another powerful demonstration of the power of comparative anatomy in paleontology when he presented a second paper in 1796 on a large fossil skeleton from Paraguay, which he named Megatherium and identified as a giant sloth by comparing its skull to those of two living species of tree sloth.

An elevated temporomandibular joint occurs in Bradypus, a tree sloth with anterior chisel-shaped teeth instead of caniniforms, and the tree sloth Choloepus, which is aligned with the megalonychids, has anterior caniniforms.

The flanges are elongate, but not inflated in Hapalops, as in the tree sloth, Bradypus (Naples, 1982).

The unique inverted tree sloth locomotion pattern has been cited as evidence of a close phylogenetic relationship between these genera (Webb, 1985).

In the tree sloth Choloepus, orientation of the M. pterygoideus lateralis heads is posteroventral, as in other mammals, but in Bradypus the heads are posterodorsally oriented (Naples, 1985a).

Thus, all humans, except for the entire fan base of the World Wrestling Federation, contain origami patterns with distinctive loops and logos that make them different from tree sloths or hamsters.

They were part of a group that includes modern tree sloths, armadillos and anteaters.

The purpose of this investigation was to explore the role and interplay that bite force has on the formation of microwear features upon the dentition of two- and three-fingered tree sloths (Choloepus and Bradypus, respectively), with the hypothesis that increasing relative bite force would correlate with an increase in frequency of microwear features.

Every two years the Olympics roll around and amazing specimens of humanity like Michael Phelps make the rest of us feel like tree sloths. .

In the recent past, their diversity was significantly greater, with 17 extinct species sharing body proportions and specializations with lorises and various non-primates, such as tree sloths, giant ground sloths, koalas, and striped possums (genus Dactylopsila).