We Ate This 4-Ton Sloth Into Extinction. It sounds crazy, but your ancestors might have hunted these giants for dinner. 🍖 Most people think of sloths as slow, tiny creatures living in trees. But the Megatherium was different. It weighed as much as an elephant and stood 20 feet tall. It had huge claws and thick skin. Nothing on Earth could mess with it... until humans showed up with spears. Did we really wipe them out in just a few thousand years? Or was it the climate? Here is the true story of