Giant ground sloths may have been meat-eating scavengers
The Ice Age beasts feasted on plants and meat, fossil hair analysis suggests
![an illustration of a giant ground sloth eating from a mammal carcass in front of a cave](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/100621_cg_sloth_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Some 12,000 years ago, the giant ground sloth Mylodon darwinii might have stopped outside Chile’s Mylodon Cave to take a few bites out of the carcass of a llamalike Macrauchenia, as shown in this artist’s rendition.
Jorge Blanco