We know that the extinction of megafauna, in South America at least, was around 10,000 years ago. This is at least 17,000 years after the arrival of the humans who modified the giant ground sloth ...

The study, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, indicates that humans may have inhabited South America as early as 27,000 years ago.

In the Pleistocene Epoch, South America was home to now-extinct animals, including the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon, the giant ground sloth Megatherium and the llama-like Macrauchenia ...

Thaís Pansani holding a giant sloth rib bone from central Brazil, thought to be burned by human fire about 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, in Smithsonian’s collection AP ...

Artist’s depiction of a person carving an osteoderm from a giant sloth in Brazil about 25,000 to 27,000 years ago. (Júlia d’Oliveira / Associated Press) ...

Artifacts found in Santa Elina are roughly 27,000 years old — more than 10,000 years before scientists once thought that humans arrived in the Americas.

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest By CHRISTINA LARSON The Associated Press, Updated December 20, 2024, 6:31 p.m.

Artifacts found in Santa Elina are roughly 27,000 years old — more than 10,000 years before scientists once thought that humans arrived in the Americas.

This illustration provided by researchers depicts a person carving an osteoderm from a giant sloth in Brazil about 25,000 to 27,000 years ago. (Júlia d'Oliveira via AP) ...

Artifacts found in Santa Elina are roughly 27,000 years old — more than 10,000 years before scientists once thought that humans arrived in the Americas.