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By wonderfulwv 02/14/202012/16/2021 February 2017/Geology/Preservation/Wildlife

Jefferson’s ‘Giant Claw’

How a long-extinct species of giant sloth was christened by a Founding Father and, centuries later, became our state fossil.

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