Manatee County utility crews unearthed a piece of history, dating back thousands of years, while digging a trench for a waterline. They found a fossilized claw of a giant ground sloth that was covered in dirt and vines. "They were digging away and found what they thought was an ordinary tool," said Charlie Hunsicker, the director of Manatee County’s Natural Resources Department. SNIP Dating back more than 11,000 years, the fossilized find was determined to be a claw from a Jefferson’s ground sloth, a slightly smaller version of the giants that first inhabited South America. "When South America and North...