As Odess interprets them, one set of tracks shows “a giant ground sloth going along on four feet” when it encounters the footprints of a small human who’s recently dashed by. The huge animal ...

That means humans would have lived alongside the giant sloths ... in fresh bones”. The sloth bones were found at what was believed to be a human campsite. Scientists know the first humans ...

As Odess interprets them, one set of tracks shows “a giant ground sloth going along on four feet” when it encounters the footprints of a small human who’s recently dashed by. The huge animal ...

Recent findings challenge long-held theories about when humans first arrived in the Americas and how they interacted with megafauna like giant sloths and mastodons. For instance, ancient human ...

Thaís Pansani holds a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil dated to about 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, which is thought to be burned by human-made fire, in the Smithsonian’s National ...