Inferring lifestyle and locomotor habits of extinct sloths through scapula morphology and implications for convergent evolution in extant sloths
Despite the restricted morphology and distribution of sloths today, fossils sloths show a wide variety of forms and behaviors and used to range from South America to Alaska. These extinct forms have in the past simply been lumped together as "ground sloths", separated from modern "tre...
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University of Iowa
2014
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1329 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5368&context=etd |