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The museum has a two-thirds-scale model of the marine reptile, which swam the oceans of what is now central Nevada some 225 million years ago.Īs any 5-year-old will tell you, that’s a long time to go without a name.Ĭontact reporter Henry Brean at or 70.This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. Underwood said next year’s contest will focus on the ichthyosaur, the official fossil for a state that will celebrate its 150th birthday one year from Thursday. If any of this sounds enticing, you better start working on names for a giant sea monster. Original done with fountain pen & Sumi ink on. His sloth name and his real name now appear on a plaque in front of the skeleton, which stands about 9 feet tall or roughly 5 feet taller than Caden. Sloth skeleton study inspired from vintage biology drawings. He also received a plush sloth doll and a family pass to the museum. The display at the museum is actually a cast of the real fossils, which Caden and his family got to see during a behind-the-scenes tour of the collection that was part of his prize. Some missing elements were provided in the form of casts. All bones were found and collected legally. The skeleton itself is a composite representing nearly 18 years of collecting. Underwood said the specimen the most complete fossil of an extinct Shasta ground sloth anywhere in the Southwest, with about 60 percent of its bones intact. The complete mounted skeleton offered here is from a private collection. Researchers believe the creature most likely fell into the cave and died.
Molasses joined the museum’s collection in 1995, five years after some hikers found it in a cave near Devil Peak, northwest of Primm. The museum did the same thing last year for the mammoth mammoth skeleton - now known as Christopher Columbian Mammoth - that greets visitors at the entrance to the main hall of exhibits. The Name the Fossil Contest was held to celebrate National Fossil Day on Oct. You were allowed cast more than one ballot in the contest, but you had to do so in person, Underwood said. Molasses was coaxed along to the winner’s circle by members of Caden’s family, who kept dropping by the museum to vote for the boy’s entry. That’s how his mom describes him when he’s dragging his feet: slow as molasses.Ĭaden’s name beat out two other finalists, handpicked by museum staff from a larger pool of entries: Daisy, a play on the fact that the skeleton is from a female Shasta ground sloth that has been pushing up daisies for the better part of 32,000 years and Primmabella, because the bones were found in a cave near Primm, where the sloth was “on her way to go shopping and get herself a Fossil handbag,” Underwood said. Common Name: Giant ground sloth skeleton Scientific Name: Eremotherium laurillardi Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Xenarthra Fami. Sali Underwood, the museum’s curator of natural history, said the idea came to Caden out of personal experience. The winner is Caden Burt, a 5-year-old boy with glasses and spiky hair. (Tom Dyer/Nevada State Museum Las Vegas)Īpparently, even news travels slowly in the world of sloth naming.īut what this story lacks in timeliness, it makes up for in cuteness.Ĭlear back on Saturday, officials at the Nevada State Museum at the Springs Preserve unveiled the winning entry in their contest to name the collection’s giant ice age sloth skeleton. Caden won a plush sloth and gift bag and his name is added to the permanent exhibit. Caden Burt holds his winnings for picking the name of the fossil ground sloth.
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