Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

Published: 16/11/2017

Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths

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A report by Fred Pearce for The New Scientist. Who killed the giant ground sloth? Or the mammoth and sabre-toothed cat, come to that. Was it humans or a natural event, like the end of the last ice age? The question is endlessly debated. But the answer, at least in the Caribbean, now seems certain: […]

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