Although avocado fossils have also been found in many ... These included enormous animals such as mammoths, mastodons and giant sloths that could be 10 feet tall and weigh 2,200 pounds.

They were originally dispersed by megafauna: Giant ground sloths ... gives “new evidence for 10,000 years plus, probably, of avocado use,” said Tom Dillehay, a research professor at Vanderbilt ...

Although avocado fossils have also been found in many of those places ... These included enormous animals such as mammoths, ...