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Two Big, Two Fail: The Life and Demise of Ice Age Giants, Ground Sloths & Armadillos

Two Big, Two Fail: The Life and Demise of Ice Age Giants, Ground Sloths & Armadillos

Update: 2025-05-01
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Giant Ground Sloths and Giant Armadillos (Eremotherium and Glyptodon) were seemingly too big to fail...yet time comes for us all. So, how did these Ice Age (Pleistocene) get SO big, and why did they go extinct?

Previous episode mentioned:

Fossil Preperation
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5762aSEEWuQeUVqJGIo6NK?si=2f6420a3c6ab4d19

Email: Podcasts@HMNS.org
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Two Big, Two Fail: The Life and Demise of Ice Age Giants, Ground Sloths & Armadillos

Two Big, Two Fail: The Life and Demise of Ice Age Giants, Ground Sloths & Armadillos

Houston Museum of Natural Science