In fossilized footprints, evidence of humans, a giant sloth, and ‘the killer blow’
Fossilized footprints in the salt flats of White Sands National Monument, in the southwestern U.S. state of New Mexico, reveal humans walking in the exact footsteps of a giant sloth and then confronting it, possibly hurling spears.
Meet Sjakie, the baby sloth saved by a child’s teddy bear
Living On Earth host Steve Curwood talks with paleontologist David Webb about the newly discovered remains of species of giant sloth that lived in Florida more than two million years ago.