hello!!! todays episode is an epic one, and perhaps a surprise… ITS NOT EVEN A DINOSAUR!!! it’s a sloth! let’s get to it!!! Christian De Muizon, H. Gregory Mcdonald, Rodolfo Salas & Mario Urbina (2004) The evolution of feeding adaptations of the aquatic sloth Thalassocnus, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24:2, 398-410, DOI: 10.1671/2429b Amson, E., de Muizon, C., Laurin, M., Argot, C., & de Buffrénil, V. (2014). Gradual adaptation of bone structure to aquatic lifestyle in extinct sloths from Peru. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 281(1782), 20140192. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0192 Tejada, J. V., Flynn, J. J., MacPhee, R., O’Connell Tamsin, C., Cerling, T. E., Lizette, B., Capuñay Carmen, Natalie, W., & Popp, B. N. (2021). Isotope data from amino acids indicate Darwin’s ground sloth was not an herbivore. Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group), 11(1)http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97996-9 Bustos, D., Jakeway, J., Urban, T. M., Holliday, V. T., Fenerty, B., Raichlen, D. A., Budka, M., Reynolds, S. C., Allen, B. D., Love, D. W., Santucci, V. L., Odess, D., Willey, P., McDonald, H. G., & Bennett, M. R. (n.d.). Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America. Science Advances, 4(4), eaar7621. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar7621 Politis, G. G., Messineo, P. G., Stafford, T. W., & Lindsey, E. L. (n.d.). Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas. Science Advances, 5(3), eaau4546. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau4546
