{"id":2334,"date":"2008-04-14T08:40:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2008-04-14T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T15:41:08","slug":"giant-sloth-fossil-found-in-carlsbadistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2334","title":{"rendered":"Giant Sloth Fossil Found In Carlsbadistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/met-sloth2-280.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/met-sloth2-280.jpg','popup','width=280,height=181,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/met-sloth2-280-tm.jpg\" height=\"129\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Met-Sloth2-280\" \/><\/a>First it was the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?s=mastodon\" target=\"_blank\">Mastodon fossil<\/a><\/strong> found at El Camino Real and Canon Road. Now, a second discovery has been made at the new <strong>Robertson Ranch<\/strong> development.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Late last month, paleontologists monitoring the excavation of <strong>Robertson Ranch<\/strong>, which is being developed for homes, spotted a skeleton of a giant ground sloth as earthmovers were grading. . . &#8220;We know we have part of a pelvis, part of a front leg and part of a back leg,&#8221; <strong>Dem&#233;r&#233;<\/strong> said of the sloth discovery. &#8220;There were two ribs we could see and part of a vertebra. . . . They&#8217;d been held together a couple of hundred thousand years by mudstone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While this giant sloth roamed the <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> area approximately 120,000 to 200,000 years ago, experts believe it was likely not one of <strong>Mayor Bud Lewis<\/strong>&#8216; pets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20080414-9999-1m14sloth.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it was the Mastodon fossil found at El Camino Real and Canon Road. Now, a second discovery has been made at the new Robertson Ranch development. Late last month, paleontologists monitoring the excavation of Robertson Ranch, which is being developed for homes, spotted a skeleton of a giant ground sloth as earthmovers were grading. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}