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Ancient Humans Stalked Giant Ground Sloths, Fossil Footprints Suggest (8 of 10)

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Ancient Humans Stalked Giant Ground Sloths, Fossil Footprints Suggest (8 of 10)

image: Human footprint inside a sloth track. This composite track is part of a trackway in which the human appears to have stalked the sloth. 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." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Matthew Bennett, Bournemouth University]


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