Elementary students from Tara Redwood School in Soquel, while playing in a forest and digging for crawdads in the Santa Cruz Mountains last spring, discovered a fossil sloth bone, marking the first find of its kind in Santa Cruz County. Experts confirmed the bone to be from an Ice Age sloth, extinct creatures that measured up to 3 meters in length and weighed as much as 2,400 pounds. The rare megafauna fossil has attracted attention for its significance in understanding prehistoric life in the region.
First-ever ancient sloth bone found in Santa Cruz Mountains https://t.co/RF9s9eSqxe
Elementary School Students Find Rare Prehistoric Sloth Bone While Digging for Crawdads https://t.co/FnhVhWRQU3
Kids were playing in a Santa Cruz forest when they found a fossil. Experts later confirmed the bone was from an Ice Age sloth. These extinct sloths were 3 meters long and weighed up to 2,400 pounds! My full story: https://t.co/VoQelzI0bB https://t.co/XHC4ar0TN4
Look at this! Elementary school kids found a rare megafauna fossil in the Santa Cruz Mountains: https://t.co/mHsF0MAmJk https://t.co/zkCnpPDMoQ
It's a good day as an editor when I get to learn about ice age sloths and how young kids happened upon such an ancient sloth bone in the Santa Cruz Mountains thank you for the levity @jackjlee! https://t.co/popR0pHqoK
Elementary students from Tara Redwood School in Soquel made an astonishing discovery last spring while playing in the Santa Cruz Mountains: a fossil sloth bone that’s the first of its kind in Santa Cruz County. https://t.co/8c2TmlhHqH