SAO PAULO — Los perezosos no siempre fueron animales peludos y lentos que vivían en los árboles. “Existía la idea de que los humanos llegaron y acabaron con todo muy rápidamente, a lo que se denomina ‘exceso de destrucción del Pleistoceno’”, dijo Daniel Odess, arqueólogo del Parque Nacional White Sands, en Nuevo México. Sus hallazgos, junto con otros descubrimientos recientes, …
SAO PAULO — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print “There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly — what’s called ‘Pleistocene overkill,’” said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook …
Artist’s depiction of a person carving an osteoderm from a giant sloth in Brazil about 25,000 to 27,000 years ago. “There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly — what’s called ‘Pleistocene overkill,’” said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. But new discoveries suggest that “humans were existing alongside …
