Early South American hunters primarily hunted megafauna, including giant sloths, new study reveals

A new detailed analysis of archaeological evidence demonstrates that early human populations of southern South America relied on extinct megafauna—such as giant sloths, giant armadillos, and prehistoric horses—as a regular food source, rather than as occasional or opportunistic prey...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/south-american-hunters-hunted-giant-megafauna/

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Read my piece, "Massive extinction: The demise of Darwin’s ancient giant #sloth has lessons for the present"

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/23/massive-extinction-the-demise-of-darwins-ancient-giant-sloth-has-lessons-for-the-present/ #climate #evolution #Darwin #science #Chile #PuntaArenas #Montevideo #BuenosAires #paleontology #giantsloth #wildlife #TorresdelPaine #Argentina

Jeez!
Here's a ferocious looking beastie to throw at your adventuring party during a lost world wilderness encounter.

#RPGs #DnD #OSR #NSR #WildernessEncounters #GiantSloth
https://mastodon.ie/@mtechman/112752900609450817

A giant ground sloth in watercolour.

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One of the largest ground sloths, the elephant sized Eremotherium laurillardi, which ranged throughout most of South America, Central America and the southern United States until just about 11,000 years ago
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This one is for my licensing library. You can also see a figure showing the manus of this taxon, quickly recognized by the presence of only two claws

#eremotherium #sloth #groundsloth #fediart #giantsloth #paleoart #conceptart #digitalart #digitalartist #illustration #pleistocene #art

Am I the only one who wants to create a character that uses a giant sloth as a steed?

Maybe have a whole giant sloth Cavalry.

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Eremotherium Study

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremotherium#/media/File:WLA_hmns_Giant_ground_sloth_2.jpg

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