For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree." However, a “trellis” model might be more appropriate.

Now researchers have found other megafauna specimens, including giant sloths and camel-like ... then they would have lived side-by-side with humans who arrived in South America sometime between ...

Nearly 12,600 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene era, a group of humans hunted and killed a giant ground sloth in Argentina, then left the animal's bones behind, along with their butchering knife.

“Humans are an anomaly,” Yagi said ... I wondered what we could learn from the giant isopod. --The Asahi Shimbun, May 19 Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column that takes up a ...