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Costa Rican researchers found 40,000-year-old mastodon and giant sloth fossils, one of the country’s most significant paleontological discoveries in decades.
Researchers in Costa Rica have discovered fossils of a mastodon and giant sloth dating up to 40,000 years old, one of the country’s most significant paleontological finds in decades.
Found on private land in Cartago province, the remains include 49 bone fragments like a femur and vertebrae.
Preliminary analysis suggests the bones are between 10,000 and 40,000 years old.
The mastodon was an ancient elephant relative, and the sloth an ancestor of modern tree-dwelling species.
The National Museum plans to display the fossils, which offer new insights into Ice Age ecosystems in Central America.
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Investigadores costarricenses encontraron fósiles de mastodontes y perezosos gigantes de hace 40.000 años, uno de los descubrimientos paleontológicos más importantes del país en décadas.