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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090526/sc_nm/us_peru_fossils
Finding nearly complete fossils of large animals is rare. It seems that slow moving creature has been around a long long time. They found a giant armadillo nearby. This must be a good area to find fossils.
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Wow, that's really fascinating........and to think the fossil was almost intact!
It's possible!
That was a great find. Thanks for letting me read an interesting article.
I think that would be neat to find something like that.
Neat!