Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest – Times of India
Paleontologist Thaís Pansani stands in front the reconstructed skeleton of a giant ground sloth at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington. (Picture credit: AP) SAO PAULO: Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge, up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) and when startled, they brandished immense claws.For a…