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." ...

And the White Sands footprints preserve a few moments of their early interactions. As Odess interprets them, one set of tracks shows “a giant ground sloth going along on four feet” when it ...

The sloth is the world's slowest mammal, so sedentary that algae grows on its furry coat. The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of its Central and South ...

The giant sloth had adapted very well to the climatic conditions. The reason for its extinction was unclear for a long time - until researchers like forensic scientists examined the footprints. Humans ...