How Giant Sloths Made it to North America... Twice

[@Rune_Scholar]

I always mishear the scientific name of Terror Birds as "Forest Rockets".

[@chickadeestevenson5440]

me too

[@arthurmachabee3606]

I had the closed captions turned on, and the auto-generated subtitles also spelt Phorusrhacid as "Forest Rockets" (also rendered Phorusrhacos as "Forest Ruckus," plus some other gaffs)

[@brandonhodges6010]

wait its not

[@Jo3M]

Dude I just thought that's what he was saying...

[@bmoneybby]

"Four Inch Rockets"

[@RedXlV]

How did giant sloths make it to North America? Very slowly.

[@astick5249]

Giant ground sloths have got to be one of the megafauna i am most sad about being extinct.

[@joshuatassone8766]

So long, ground sloths, and thanks for all the avocadoes!

[@dolsopolar]

and doedicurus, mammalian ankylosaurs.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Xenarthrans are a very cool group!

[@anthonylezama1645]

love your channel ❤

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thank you!

[@morganmcadams6596]

It’s criminal that this dude doesn’t get more views

[@tulip2342]

i really wish giant animals like these never went extinct because they would be incredible to see

[@Threepeater6447]

If there not some animal will also extinct when there still around

[@draphotube4315]

I miss it too, the world seemed so more fascinating back then, not saying that our current world isn’t beautiful, it sure is. It’s just that those beasts were like a cherry on top of a cake.

[@toshi5239]

Would have been very strange to walk around the woods and just happened to see a elephant sized sloth

[@dolsopolar]

elephants aren't any less fascinating but still treated as just another modern animals, because they're still alive.

[@ian_b]

Ah yes, the Forest Rockets.

[@slyninja4444]

Imagine if these animals never went extinct and were domesticated by the natives.

[@bluemoondiadochi]

well, in patagonia the sloths survived the longest, and there is evidence that young sloths were walled up in caves and fed there by the indians, to be eaten. not exactly domesticated, but yea. also, there are sporadic accounts from after conquest times of sloth sightings, and then there is also the amazonian cryaptozoological mapinguari, which could well be a last surviving sloth. plus, you can still find sloth hides in dry regions of patagonia. my wish would be to clone them back.

[@thorshammer8033]

Terror Bird KFC

[@MrSunturion]

@@bluemoondiadochi that's correct that Cryptid is called the "Ucumar" on the Andean Countries.

[@Smninoe_Oninoe]

Forget cars, we have armadillos!

[@prince_yt3406]

@@Smninoe_Oninoe heh but probably take your a few years to get to places

[@reddydc5562]

Forest rockets has to be the best misinterpretation of a scientific name ever

[@evantiel727]

An amazing video ! And tour voice is getting better !! Keep the good work :3

[@mothlightmedia1936]

Thank you

[@TITANSofTheEARTH]

The still living sloths are so slow...they missed their own extincion.

[@arycosta7293]

Aww the Sloth family, nature’s gift to predators.

[@jimmyshrimbe9361]

Man, I really love your channel!

[@scotland369]

Can't believe these animals grinded out survival for all these years, while humans never even existed

[@alexcontreras6103]

that's the history of evolution 99.9% everything that existed went extinct

[@trvth1s]

@@alexcontreras6103 if something gets big it is guaranteed to go extinct

[@mrnefarious5752]

@@trvth1s Everything that exists is guaranteed to become extinct sooner or later, It is more likely that large land bound animals will go extinct sooner than large waterbound animals

[@trvth1s]

@@mrnefarious5752 I agree on extinctions inevitably but I can't speak on land extinctions being more or less likely than aquatic. I know the last extinction event, the quaternary, was mostly land. But I also know that the biggest extinction ever, while terrible on both sides, was a lot worse in the oceans

[@gary4689]

Well, they're Lucky humans weren't around then, our favorite pastime seems to be causing the extinction of megafauna

[@vladimirlagos2688]

The loss of the island South America megafauna was probably the most tragic loss of biodiversity the planet experienced in the period between the extinction of dinosaurs and the arrival of modern humans.

[@thatyoudliketoknow1628]

Great channel, thanks for the great work!

[@FiveToedSloth]

I'm a simple person. I see sloths, I watch.

[@travisbicklejr]

Fantastic video!

[@JesusMartinez-rr2ry]

How cool is that giant ground sloth with the patterning of a giant anteater. Including the panda knees as well

[@GreenFors]

How does this channel have so few views!?

[@booj3432]

GreenFors cuz he boring as fuck

[@MrSunturion]

I have no idea, as a Paleontology Fanatic. I've seen several channels including the one being run by PBS (Aons), but these videos are the Best! 🤩

[@TheGBZard]

I hope someday you make a video about Paleogene dinosaurs and whether they existed or they were just a myth. I heard on Reddit that some people think that some non-avain dinosaurs survived the K-Pg extinction. I would also love to see a video about the mystery of the first dinosaur and where on Pangaea they came from

[@1lobster]

yay! more stuff!

[@bmoneybby]

People always look at me weird when I randomly blurt out,"my favorite animal is the Giant Ground Sloth!"

[@indyreno2933]

Two-toed sloths are not megalonychids, they are now part of their own family (Choloepodidae) that is actually closer to Mylodontidae than to Megalonychidae, additionally, the family Bradypodidae is no longer considered basal to other living sloths or in its own superfamily and is usually now placed within Megatherioidea, while Choloepodidae is part of Mylodontoidea.

[@CaioRodrigues001]

crazy to think my ancestors roamed the south american plains among these giants

[@reidb6327]

I was hoping u had a video about sloths awesome

[@kenandgames6672]

What is the music used in this video?

[@highorder2904]

Dreamer by DivKid.

[@viorp5267]

6:26 I miss the giant sloths.

[@izaiahblue9163]

When you realize that what sid from ice age would have been if it was accurate 😂😂.

[@Sonic12Lexi]

1:32 you could say the extinction of the Non-Avian Dinosaur, because Birds are a living dinosaur which makes Dinosaur an extant animal.

[@dantearias2182]

Name of the soundtrack?

[@dantearias2182]

Dreamer by dvkid

[@MrSunturion]

I love this Episode! South America. 💪🇵🇪

[@Biwul]

Thats why Costa Rica has so many animals from Both north and south america

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

Because this country is connected to Both North america and south america

[@immanuelschacherer2469]

Can you make a video about the evolution of insects?

[@mothlightmedia1936]

That's a really interesting topic but one that's quite poorly understood at the moment. I suppose I could look into the current theories of how insects are thought to have evolved.

[@maxjess6603]

Watches a video about ground sloths that are endemic to South America Moth Light: MADAGASCAR

[@Exochromatic]

What's the track you use in your videos?

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

I have a question:why the neartic animals drestoyed the netropical animals?

[@florix7889]

I think we even found some précolombian scriptures of giant sloth in temples etc... Can't confirm it thought. I think humans finally hunted them to extinction

[@trvth1s]

we likely hunted small island sloths into extinction, but the giants in north and south america all went extinct in the Quaternary extinction along with many other animals, humans also almost went extinct at this time.

[@Happiwappi]

I wonder what they sound like

[@mstalcup]

1:12 The African lion is actually not part of Atlantogenata. It is part of Boreoeutheria.

[@refindoazhar1507]

I don't know why he didn't make it clearer in the video (by adding some text above the lion), but if you listen closely, you would notice that he never said that lion is an atlantogenata. Furthermore, the lion picture only started to appear when he said "most mammals", implying that lion, unlike atlantogenata, is a more typical mammal.

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

Look at the phylogeny chart again. It shows that lions, or Boreutherians, split off from atlantogenata. He never said that they were atlantogenatans themselves.

[@Unocd]

Those giant sloths 🦥 looks scary and huge 😟😨😱

[@Malc222]

What does the ‘therium’ suffix mean from Megatherium? I feel like I hear it a lot on this channel.

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

Beast

[@HeyoSpeaker]

Did the creator use the wrong photo for Aardvark at 1:13 ?

[@coltkillergaming5685]

There in that family

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

Elephants and aardvarks are both afrotheres.

[@Akhi-Ayubi]

Whats the bgm used in this Video

[@amehak1922]

Slowly, and with hard work and determination.

[@wrightgregson9761]

what is the music?

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

A lot of plant species in South America actually co-evolved with the giant ground sloths, and used them as seed dispersing agents. Unfortunately, it’s become very hard to sustain them, since all the ground sloths have gone extinct. This is the only time that returning an extinct species would actually be beneficial for the ecosystem, but there are simply no close living relatives. Hell, a newborn megatherium was probably twice the size of an adult Bradypus.

[@Teag_Brohman15]

Carl!!! Easy, Frank...

[@DeePrime2410]

🤣

[@skittlezthatkittlez]

closed captions arent giving me the accurate names. what are the odd looking elephant like creatures called??

[@stormisuedonym4599]

Gomphotheres?

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

Gomphotheres

[@melvinshine9841]

I thought Kelenken was the largest terror bird. Did it get reclassified or something?

[@jadenwhen]

It was the tallest, but not the heaviest.

[@Black_Ir0n]

Song name?

[@dantearias2182]

We need to know this

[@Black_Ir0n]

@@dantearias2182 I found it. It's called Ambient - Cityscape, or Dreamer by DivKid

[@feykro4152]

Why would animals island hop? I assume there would still be a ton of water between mainland and island, so why would an animal look at that and go, "nice day for a swim I guess."? Wouldn't it have an extremely high risk of death which should dissuade animals from doing so?

[@cian7302]

The animals wouldn't really know the extent of the ocean's danger

[@HkFinn83]

Rockets evolved in the forest, nature is just amazing

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

I like when you say once upon a time

[@sidclark1953]

The background music in this is too loud. Can't hear some of the narration.

[@efjay3183]

If I had one I would be very happy.

[@avinotion]

1:10 "...like elephants and aardvarks...", showing pictures of an elephant and a lion. I know, African mammals, but it's still funny

[@genghiskhan6809]

I wonder what they would’ve tasted like

[@usmanya5110]

Wait. I thought kelenken was larger than Phorusrhacos.

[@reanyory]

I think extinct animals are more interesting than modern animals :'v

[@feykro4152]

I wonder if you'd think otherwise if the animals we have now were swapped with the animals back then, so that you grew up with the old animals, and the current animals are the ones extinct.

[@JellyAntz]

That’s party because we are used to modern animals, but if we lived with the extinct animals we would be more familiar with them. Modern elephants and rhinos, though not as large as their relatives, are still very cool

[@calebmarks4150]

Who else thought the pic of macrauchenia at 3:06 was a mid-coitus portrait amirite

[@nahshon9998]

If a video was produced by Moth Light Media you can count on it being fantasy, not fact.

[@DouglasEKnappMSAOM]

I want to see more content from you and I consider subscribing but that did not seem to do anything.

[@TheEddy797]

But why they went extinct in North America? And why camelides completely left North America? 🤔🤔🤔

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

One thing:humans

[@Ispeakthetruthify]

They didn't leave North America, they went extinct in North America. But before they did, they crossed the land bridge into Asia. Same with horses.

[@TheEddy797]

@@pedrogabrielduarte4544 no, there are humans in south america too...but there are slopes as well

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

The North American ones went extinct. Some went to South America, giving rise to llamas, and some also went to Asia, giving rise to true camels.

[@xenomorphoverlord]

Why does Madagascar look like a rat

[@Autistic-Noice-British-Panda]

At 5:13 you mean gomphotheres not gampatheres

[@gadisiskandar9082]

Great

[@ashiqurrahman8830]

forest rocket. whaaaaaaaaaat

[@DesertScorpionKSA]

The North American mammals ruled all eventually.

[@levihuttner3260]

Good video, but Macrauchenia was not a notoungulate, it was a litoptern

[@JellyAntz]

And also it didn’t actually have a trunk

[@indyreno2933]

The South American hoofed mammals are collectively known as meridiungulates

[@albanmahoudeau1779]

3.01)SOUTH AMERICA'S ISOLATION:

[@creiggy0138]

mamooth slOT 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@raysson788]

Sid

[@corvinal7091]

the most regrettable thing in the world, was the union between the Americas

[@tillabakos2248]

This channel is quite interesting and in the meantime is painfully superficial. I am not sure how to feel about it.

[@TeethToothman]

🫀🖤🫀

[@markstevenson2492]

🌳🚀

[@albanmahoudeau1779]

OPOSSUM:

[@Gabberag]

Meso-american isthmus*

[@albanmahoudeau1779]

CONAN.

[@thewhovianhippo7103]

Imagen of Britain was like that we would have ungulate bear's

[@estebanserrato9130]

Gachas

[@DeePrime2410]

Sid