Kasia Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/04/25/humans-stalked-giant-sloths-ancient-footprints-at-white-sands-national-monument-show/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f4b8d997cab5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Thought many here would find this interesting. Investigation of Late-pleistocene / Holocene giant ground sloth tracks and contemporaneous human footprints was recently published. They were found in White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. Here's a link to a story in the Washington Times. Trackway/Footprints @Cowboy Paleontologist NOTE: Topics merged 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Or; I like to think, the sloth nobbled the Humans! 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Cool story about footprints in the sand. It looks like the US Park Service needs to order a few barrels of plastic consolidated and solvent to help stabilize the fragile prints. Here is another article that explains why both prints were found together: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/558797/ 1 My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 What a cliff-hanger!!! I really hope that the whole trackway can be uncovered (and somehow preserved). Giant Ground Sloth's would have posed a daunting adversary, swinging those meat-hook claws around! Who knows which tracks emerge continuous? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxytropidoceras Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 How to hunt a giant sloth – according to ancient human footprints, the Conversation, April 26, 2018 http://theconversation.com/how-to-hunt-a-giant-sloth-according-to-ancient-human-footprints-95344 David Bustos, Jackson Jakeway, Tommy M. Urban, Vance T. Holliday, Brendan Fenerty, David A. Raichlen, Marcin Budka, Sally C. Reynolds, Bruce D. Allen, David W. Love, Vincent L. Santucci, Daniel Odess, Patrick Willey, H. Gregory McDonald, and Matthew R. Bennett, 2018, Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America. Science Advances 25 Apr 2018: Vol. 4, no. 4, eaar7621 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar7621 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/eaar7621 Yours, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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