I Dig Sloths! at UI Museum of Natural History

Preparing a sloth tooth for stable isotope analysis
Tooth embedded in epoxy. The biting surface is up, the root is down. This tooth is one of the adult's molars, or molariform. Sloth teeth are made entirely of dentine--there's no enamel.

UI Museum of Natural History
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