Four-ton mega-sloths with flesh-rending claws ‘lived alongside humans for 10,000 years…& we used their bones as jewels’

FOUR-ton mega-sloths with flesh-rendering claws lived alongside humans for 10,000 years, new research has found.

The 20ft tall meat eating beasts were thought to have been wiped out quickly when humans made it to the Americas.

APHumans are now thought to have lived alongside the giant sloths for 10,000 years[/caption] APGiant sloths could have lived alongside humans in what is now Brazil[/caption]

But new research has found the sloth’s bones had been turned into jewellery...