Museum of Arts & Sciences (MOAS) Daytona Beach Giant Ground Sloth of Volusia County July 2024

Imagine a 13-foot, three to five ton mammal strolling through the city of Daytona Beach. Even though the sloth is a vegetarian, it would not change the fact that actually seeing the massive mammal would be quite terrifying. Thankfully, the human race was non-existent 130,000 years ago, during the era of the Giant Ground Sloth.

This Giant Ground Sloth was discovered in October 1975 at the bottom of a retention pond in Reed Canal Park, now referred to as “The Daytona Beach Bone Bed.” Workers and volunteers spend two-and-a-half years searching for the bones of the sloth. Once the remains had been excavated, Dr. Gordon Edmund, Curator of Paleontology at Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum, brought the remains up to Canada where he identified and reconstructed the sloth for the Museum of Art and Sciences.

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