Five-million-year old sloth fossil found in Peru

Monday, May 25, 2009 - 22:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

LIMA (Reuters) - The nearly intact fossil of an ancient sloth that lived 5 million years ago has been unearthed in Peru, a find about 4 million years older than similar ones discovered in the Americas, researchers said.

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