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Dr. Timothy Gaudin holds a giant sloth skull. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

When Dr. Tim Gaudin arrived at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 30 years ago, his sights were set on teaching.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to be at a place where teaching was valued and important,\u201d said Gaudin, a UC Foundation professor in the Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science. \u201cThat\u2019s really important to me.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Behind the scenes, however, Gaudin found additional value in his research\u2014and it paid off. This spring, that work earned him a huge milestone: co-authorship on a paper about sloths published in Science<\/a><\/strong>, one of the world\u2019s most prestigious scientific journals.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

College of Arts and Sciences Dean Pam Riggs-Gelasco explained the significance of this accomplishment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cScience is widely acknowledged as one of the top journals for disseminating significant scientific research,\u201d Riggs-Gelasco said. \u201cPapers selected for publication must pass through a rigorous editorial and peer-review process and only papers that are influential in their fields and that substantially advance scientific understanding are selected for publication.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs the premier journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Gaudin\u2019s article in Science will be broadly disseminated to an international audience of scientists in all disciplines.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Gretchen Potts, the department head for Biology, Geology and Environmental Science, shared similar thoughts.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Gaudin\u2019s international collaboration has been a great foundation for impactful research,” Potts said. “Disseminating this important scholarship in “Science” is a significant accomplishment and brings notoriety to the department, the college and the University.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaudin is one of two known faculty members at UTC to have ever been published in Science. It also isn\u2019t his first time. He co-authored a paper that <\/span>Science published in 2013<\/span><\/b><\/a> about <\/span>the evolutionary relationships of modern and extinct placental mammals showing they likely emerged after the extinction of the dinosaurs.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s paper focuses on a specific mammal\u2014sloths.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gaudin worked with a team of colleagues from around the world, including Alberto Boscaini\u2014<\/span>a former Ph.D. student he mentored at the Argentine Institute of Nivology, Glaciology and Environmental Sciences. Together, they\u00a0were able to uncover new information about the evolution of sloths.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSloths, right? Everybody sort of knows about the tree sloth that you see in zoos and on T-shirts and mugs,\u201d he said. \u201cSloths have become very popular.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These sloths include seven different species that fall into two genera, or types: the two-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth. The modern sloth, however, is just a glimpse into the evolutionary history of the animal, which stretches millions of years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Gaudin, over a hundred extinct sloth genera have spread throughout the Americas.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an enormous radiation of extinct sloths that shows up in South America, probably very shortly after the dinosaurs went extinct,\u201d he said. \u201cIn terms of what actually appears in the fossil record, we get our first glimpse of them somewhere around 45 million years ago.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, what did the sloths that roamed the Earth that long ago even look like? Terrifyingly, the largest sloth was comparable in size to the modern African elephant.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were about 15 feet tall and could stand up on their hind legs. They probably weighed about 6,000 kilograms,\u201d Gaudin said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, for some of the first humans, the sloths were slow-moving herbivores. Unfortunately for the sloths, this made them an easy target, and this is why these giant sloths disappeared roughly 15,000 years ago.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re slow, they\u2019re large,\u201d Gaudin said. \u201cSo, they would\u2019ve been attractive sources for hunting. And they have a really unfortunate defensive behavior where they would rear up on its hind legs and try to slash you with its claws. If you have a spear, that\u2019s a pretty bad way to react.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are actually cave paintings in South America and Brazil of people hunting sloths. We have sloth bones that were clearly butchered by people, so we know people were hunting and eating sloths.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason for the research, Gaudin explained, was to explore how sloth body size evolved and why some species grew to enormous sizes while others stayed small.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Alberto and my co-authors were interested in is sort of exploring this size variation and how does it come about,\u201d he said. \u201cWhere did sloths start out and how does body size change through time and what factors are driving that?\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By comparing the evolution of different sloth species, the team looked at patterns tied to climate, movement and habitat preference. Sloths that lived in trees were the smallest, semi-arboreal species were mid-sized and terrestrial sloths showed the greatest range, including the giants.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They also saw a climate connection over time.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it gets warmer, the sloths get a little bit smaller,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen it gets cold … they get bigger again.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For Gaudin, researching sloths is not new territory. The niche interest has spanned most of his career and has connected him with a community of other researchers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe go to conferences, we review one another\u2019s papers, we collaborate with one another,\u201d he said. \u201cThe people that work on sloths, for the most part, we all really like each other.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The recognition of this work, which he described as \u201creally important in the fossil history of South America,\u201d is validation of years of research.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It also means a lot to UTC.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUTC is not an R1 university,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a place that has a reputation as a big research institution. It\u2019s something that you keep in the back of your head. \u2018Well, that would be really cool,\u2019 but you don\u2019t come here to do something like that.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo get something like that, it\u2019s like icing on the cake. It feels like a really nice fulfillment to my research career, and it\u2019s lovely to have that kind of recognition for your work.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn more<\/h4>\n

Visit UTC<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

UTC Biology, Geology and Environmental Science<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professional development leave gives UTC professor time to \u2018do analyses and finish up unfinished projects\u2019<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How to apply<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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