Ice Age Children Frolicked In 'giant Sloth Puddles' 11,000 Years Ago, Footprints Reveal

Ice age children frolicked in 'giant sloth puddles' 11,000 years ago, footprints reveal

More than 11,000 years ago, young children trekking with their families through what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico discovered the stuff of childhood dreams: muddy puddles made from the footprints of a giant ground sloth.

Few things are more enticing to a youngster than a muddy puddle. The children — likely four in all — raced and splashed through the soppy sloth trackway, leaving their own footprints stamped in the playa — a dried up lake bed. Those footprints were preserved over millennia, leaving evidence of this prehistoric caper, new research finds.

The finding shows that children living in North America during the Pleistocene epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) liked a good splash. “All kids like to play with muddy puddles, which is essentially what it is,” Matthew Bennett, a professor of environmental and geographical sciences at Bournemouth University in the U.K. who is studying the trackway, told Live Science. Read more.

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As someone with autism I also agree with, this like I wanted non-verbal Ghloulia and I did  seen myself and her and wanted that positive representation

Can I ask why people assumed Ghoulia would be nonverbal in the movie?

While I agree that it's jarring that she speaks English, she always did speak, just in a completely different language that the audience didn't understand.

I can’t stop thinking about the Skywalker twins and their lil families going on a big trip,

and Din (with Grogu in a sling across his chest) and Luke are each holding onto one of Rey’s and Finn’s hands and telling them to stay close, stay close.

Han is grumbling about how overprotective they are the whole time, and Leia is laughing behind her hand when they finally get on the transport — but Luke, ever looking to the horizon, swears to Leia, that they’ve forgotten something, what have they forgotten on this important trip? Something equally important, it has to be.

All too suddenly, in Home Alone fashion, Han and Leia jerk from their seats, horror and perhaps a bit of shocked amusement on their faces.

“BEN!”

Luke is a spaz about it, smacks Han upside the head the same time Leia does and Din only laughs behind his bucket, stroking Grogu’s ear while Rey gasps theatrically at her cousin’s absence and Finn giggles at Han’s dumbstruck face.