Five-million-year old sloth fossil found in Peru

It actually took them a few days to realize it was dead....

The nearly intact fossil of an ancient sloth that lived 5 million years ago has been unearthed in Peru, a find about 4 million years older than similar ones discovered in the Americas, researchers said.

Five-million-year old sloth fossil found in Peru - Yahoo! News

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You can't fire me, I'm drunk! - Yahoo! News

The thing is that no-one really knows what is under those judges' robes. it could be a hip flask with a whiskey for all we know. If I lived in Peru, I guess I'd have to start drinking...

You can't fire me, I'm drunk! - Yahoo! News: "Peru's top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, a decision that was criticized by the government on Wednesday for setting a dangerous precedent.

The Constitutional Tribunal ordered that Pablo Cayo be given his job back as a janitor for the municipality of Chorrillos, which fired him for being intoxicated at work."

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Dinosaur Found on Bus

Actually, the dinosaur died while waiting for the bus!

clipped from news.yahoo.com AREQUIPA, Peru (Reuters) - Officials found the fossil of a giant dinosaur jawbone while investigating a suspicious package on a bus in the mountains of Peru on Tuesday. The fossil, weighing some 19 pounds, was found in the cargo hold of the bus, which was headed for the capital of Lima, and had been sent on the bus company's package service. Peru has struggled for years to combat trafficking of fossils and artefacts. Recently Yale University in the United States agreed to return thousands of pieces taken from the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu to Peru. "The jawbone that was found could be from a triceratops, even though dinosaurs like that have never been found in southern Peru," Pablo de la Vera Cruz, an archaeologist at the National University in Arequipa in southern Peru, said after examining police photos.

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