ArticleBiology letters2025
Lost giants, lost functions: palaeodietary insights into the ecological niches of Pleistocene ground sloths.
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- Lost giants, lost functions: palaeodietary insights into the ecological niches of Pleistocene ground sloths.Biology letters · 2025Article
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Ground sloths were terrestrial megafauna that inhabited the Western Hemisphere. While they are inferred to have been browsers and grazers based on craniodental morphology, it is plausible that they performed a wide range of ecological functions, including seed dispersal, bioturbation and nutrient cycling. Understanding ground sloth ecology is challenging due to their enamel-free dentition, which poses limitations to palaeodietary methods, like stable isotope analysis, due to the increased probability of diagenesis in more porous tissues. Here, we conduct dental microwear texture analysis on
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