Ancient Humans Stalked Giant Ground Sloths, Fossil Footprints Suggest (7 of 10) (IMAGE)

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Ancient Humans Stalked Giant Ground Sloths, Fossil Footprints Suggest (7 of 10)

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Two human footprint trackways at White Sands National Monument (New Mexico). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 25 April 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Bustos at White Sands National Monument in Holloman Air Force Base, NM, and colleagues was titled, "Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America."

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[Credit: Matthew Bennett, Bournemouth University]

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