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Bear-Sized Snow Sloths? Meet Megalonyx, The Ice Age Giants That Lived Until 13,000 Years Ago

An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...
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Early humans dined on giant sloths and other Ice Age giants, archaeologists find

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...
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Giant sloths and sabertooth cats : extinct mammals and the archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin / Donald K. Grayson ; with animal reconstructions by Wally Woolfenden

Sloth in prison -- The Great Basin now and then -- A zoologically impoverished world -- Dating an ass -- A stable of ground sloths -- Extinct mammals, dangerous plants, and the early peoples of the ...
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Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...