Our Bravest Ancestors May Have Hunted Giant Sloths

Sara Chodosh wrote an article about how our late ancestors may have use to hunt sloths that were way bigger than they are now. They were eight feet tall and had long curved blades, for claws, on their feet. It is difficult however to tell whether humans did in fact hunt these animals or not as the fossils can not be found with cut marks. Chodosh states that “paleontologists at the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico found human footprints following – and sometimes directly inside – giant ground sloth tracks.” This article is very intriguing because I never knew giant sloths existed let alone that they would be so scary looking and the fact that our ancestors may have hunted them is pretty cool. [1 image, 1 link, 1 quotation, 124 words]