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join sydney on a trip through the mesozoic era (and maybe sometimes the cenozoic) (and occasionally the paleozoic) while we explore dinosaurs and megafauna and microfauna and other animals!
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
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