The MANY Interpretations of Megatherium & Megalonyx!

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

You realise “Wow Sid is way more buff that he looks in the movies.”

[@dagoodboy6424]

Ive Assembled

[@ajuuran2890]

In reality Sid would have been dominating Diego.

[@sandeepkunwar9518]

Sid is the best interpretation of any ground sloth... you can't deny that.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

Sid: "They left without me! They DO this every YEAR! WHY?! Doesn't anyone love me? Isn't there anyone who cares about SID the SLOTH?!"

[@malikabu-jumah6609]

Fun fact: The design of Sulley from Monsters Inc is actually based on the giant ground sloth.

[@Willreacts1109]

@mailikabu-jumah6609, WHAT THE FREAK!!!! I did not know that. Thank you for the interesting fact. Also I love sulley also known as kitty and I also love sid the sloth, does anybody cares about sid the sloth? Will.

[@ivanlol7153]

That makes sense

[@amandareeves5101]

Wow, I did not know that. Thanks for the cool fact!

[@tylerfish2701]

Huh, the more you know.

[@angelicavalenzuela6863]

Oh yea

[@ProudLaysan]

Ice age trio finally finished!

[@dont-hurt-me2519]

Here are a few more interpretations of Ground Sloths that I know of: Unknown Island (1948) - A carnivorous Ground Sloth is featured in this film; portrayed by a man in a suit Mark D. Wolf's Age of Mammals (1981) - Megatherium was featured in this stop motion documentary that discussed the Cenozoic Era. Rourke Dinosaur Library (1986) - Megatherium was featured twice as a background character in both books "Ice Age Monsters: Glyptodon" & "Ice Age Monsters: Saber Tooth Tiger" The Simpsons (1994/S6E6/Treehouse of Horror V: Time & Punishment) - A Ground Sloth is seen briefly when Homer goes back in time Safari Ltd. - This toy company has only made one type of Ground Sloth figurine for Megatherium Wild New World/Prehistoric America (2002) - The Shasta Ground Sloth (a.k.a. Nothrotheriops) is featured in episode 2 (Canyonlands) & episode 6 (Mammoths in Manhattan). Eremotherium is featured in Episode 3 (Ice Age Oasis) Dinotopia: Sunstone Odyssey (2003) - A Ground Sloth known as the Old Hermit is featured in this video game. He acts as a mentor & can teach the player new fighting moves Before We Ruled the Earth (2003) - The Jefferson's Ground Sloth (a.k.a. Megalonyx) is featured in the second episode "Mastering the Beasts." It reuses the model for the Megatherium from What Killed the Mega Beasts & Giant Monsters with Jeff Corwin Monsters We Met/Land of Lost Monsters (2004) - The first episode, Eternal Frontier, featured a Ground Sloth identified as Paramylodon (a.k.a. Harlan's Ground Sloth). This was made by the same people who did Wild New World/Prehistoric America (2002), so the model used for the Paramylodon is reused from the Eremotherium from Wild New World/Prehistoric America (2002) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2006) - While you already talked about Sid & the other Ground Sloths in the franchise, you didn't mention the Mini Sloths from the second film (or Mammoth Christmas)? While not confirmed, the Mini Sloths could be Neocnus; a type of Dwarf Ground Sloth that lived on the island of Haiti & became small due to Insular Dwarfism Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara (2007) - A Megatherium (known as the Boon Sloth) is featured in this book. It lives in the Forbidden Mountains of Dinotopia & is the island's equivalent of Santa Claus; giving gifts to the citizens of Dinotopia Jurassic Park: Builder (2012) - Eremotherium was a purchasable animal for the Glacier Park (it was the only Ground Sloth featured in the game) Ice Age Giants (2013) - Nothrotheriops was featured in the last episode, Last of the Giants

[@sobbingthrower]

there's also a megatherium with baby in a old nissin noodle ad where there surrounded by many tiny cavemen.

[@Intrusion498]

Diego:why are we kissing Sid:cuz cruises are romantic?

[@gattycroc8073]

I would love to see a many interpretations of video about the terror birds because I remember seeing them in a lot of media growing up like Monsters Resurrected, Walking with Beast, and Prehistoric Predators.

[@evodolka]

i'm sad they are all gone, imagine these things still plodding around today

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

I know right!? It would be so cool

[@jukeman9291]

Instead we're left with a dead eyed moss blanket with a face

[@evodolka]

@@MarkTheDilophosaurus281 like bears, but more cow looking

[@evodolka]

@@jukeman9291 in their defense, they look PRECIOUS

[@jukeman9291]

@@evodolka idk man they make cute sounds, but they look too much like primates. It creeps me out

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

Oh look, a dandelion. Must be the last one of the season

[@xenoamen]

Whats weird about the whole fur aspect of these large Xenarthrans is that we have a specimen which could challenge the idea that their hair was that short, or that they had no fur at all. In 1896, an expedition into the Cueva del Milodón cave in Chile uncovered mummified remains of a large species of Xenarthran called a Mylodon. This sloth was 3-4 meters in length and had a similar range to that of Megatherium. What's interesting is that the mummified remains showed the presence of a full hair coat. The hairs on the skin reached up to 150 cm in length. The top hairs on the skin were fully developed while the undercoat was missing, similar to two-toed sloths. What this means is that it was entirely possible for a large Xenarthran in a tropical environment to develop a full coat of hair, even if we don't entirely know why they would need it, and despite every factor you mentioned. With that in mind, it is plausible to infer that Megatherium did have elongated hair like modern sloths and Mylodons.

[@xenoamen]

Also, a thing I forgot to add is that Eremotherium is the largest ground sloth known to exist. It was only slightly larger than Megatherium, especially in weight.

[@BloodAndCookiesx]

I've never been this early to one of your videos. I'm super excited about this, haha. Megatherium used to give me literal nightmares after I saw Walking with Beasts, because of its assumed build and the claw size. I'd wake up in a cold sweat, no joke.

[@GladlyDavid]

Same here

[@Astrapionte]

Sid is definitely a Megalonyx. Look at the teeth and where he lives! Also, that “natural history alive” sloth is based off of Glossotherium. I can tell by the skeleton and in the show they mention its digging habits, which Glossotherium is known for! ❤

[@tm43977]

The interpretation of the Giant ground sloth and Sid join here

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

4:47 I have been split on the possibility of Megatherium being hairless. It seems possible due to its size, but scientists have so far found Megatherium in the colder & dryer parts of South America. However, it did have similarly sized relatives in the tropics like Eremotherium, which I can totally see being mostly hairless like elephants.

[@hugomas5207]

Aunque el ritmo de está especie en general se dice que era muy lento y que no generaría tanto calor corporal como otros mamíferos y el por qué pudieron tener tanto pelo

[@altithoraxperotorum5133]

Megalonyx also had an appearance in the documentary monsters we met and before we ruled the earth . It isnt mentioned to be Megalonyx in monsters we met but it probably was as it is the only known sloth to make it into alaska where the episode it was in was set

[@kitchengun1175]

my favourite thing about ARK's version of Megatherium is that it completely does away with the idea of "big, lumbering beast" that people often associate with megafauna like the ground sloths i think it makes perfect sense that an animal so large would be an opportunist and eat basically anything in front of it, and the idea of it going into a frenzy around insects is so creative - it even has a believable basis since bugs are incredibly nutrient dense and a valuable source of food for anything

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Giant anteaters walk in similar ways.

[@ggrarl]

Well, anteaters and sloths are part of the same Order.

[@shadowmarauder6033]

The part about Thomas Jefferson was unexpected but very interesting. Who'd thought a founding father had a notable place in paleontology?

[@Dinossword]

There were other depictions of Eremotherium and Shasta Ground Sloth that much I know, but ok with some acknowledgement

[@GatorBoyDilopho]

Sid is a unit

[@storiesimprovelives775]

I think for the next poll, you should include Stegosaurus and terror birds. It’s kind of insane that you have done Stegosaurus yet.

[@Mario-kl8yq]

Ah yes my favorite prestoric animal,voice by the guy we don't talk about.

[@Rabbit-o-witz]

What did he do?

[@pirateclown8193]

@@Rabbit-o-witzit’s a reference from Encanto

[@KylerBrazda-we9kb]

I think ground sloths like megatherium would be capable to have good amount of hair. This is because of their slower metabolism compared to similarly sized mammals. This meant they produced less body heat. The best contender for being hairless would be thalosocnus (hope I spelled it right) as it was a species that lived in water.

[@plumzilla29]

MY FAVOURITE BIG SLOW HUNGRY SLOTH😋😋

[@فارسالشيخ-ل2و]

Can you include stogg from my singing in the many interputations of stegosaurus

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

The Simpsons crew members seem to enjoy pairing up Homer with giant ground sloths. The one highlighted is from "Super Franchise Me," but there's also one in "The Wayz We Were" and even as far back as "Treehouse of Horror V", all great episodes btw (I MIGHT be a little biased, though). He also mentions having his head stuck in a ground sloth's mouth in "Bart gets an Elephant".

[@handsome_El_guapo]

Yess 🦥🌳‼️ keep doing this series, love it

[@goosesanimations148]

10:34 that actually not a tongue, but a leg of titanomyrma (or just giant ant) in his mouth, and it makes sence cuz when u eat chitin creatures as megatherium u get the rage buff which make u stronger (also when wild one eat bug he becomes aggresive towards u).

[@christianmanka3884]

Fallout 76 has a really fun Mega Sloth

[@Mikezilla103]

Of course, one of my favorite Ice Age Characters, Sid is my first thought of the Ground Sloths ;3 Sid: I see a Tree, eat a Leaf, That's my Tracking. You know me, I'm too Lazy to hold a grudge.

[@boazarel4631]

The Ice Age trio is complete.

[@terrysyvertson9205]

sid is actually a mix of megalonyx and three-toed sloth

[@karandeepkalsi]

I think the next interpretation should be about the entelodon or daeodon

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

Or even terror birds, Titanoboa, or Doedicurus

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

I think the hair on Megatherium would be like the fur of a lion, or some big cat.

[@MrT_Rex]

Who want some dandelion salad ?

[@majorstroud]

Yes!!! Futurama!!!

[@matveynoname7083]

12:09 yeah, today we call it Bigfoot

[@Jestalnaker94000]

In ZT2, if you place a cave shelter and a dinosaur such as a T-Rex or a Utahraptor in the Giant Ground Sloth exhibit, one of those animals will hide in the shelter and if a Giant Ground Sloth sees it, they'll walk over and pick the dinosaur up with both hands and then place them outside, like Fred Flintstone with his pet Sabertooth. 😅

[@Garryzilla]

Wait you can make it do that now that’s unexpected

[@Jestalnaker94000]

@@Garryzilla I think it was a mod as I haven't played ZT2 in a while, but I could be wrong.

[@brotquel1592]

Just to clarify the whole "too big for fur" thing: you know how, when standing nearby a person you can feel their heat radiating from their body? Basically every animal has a "heat aura" (I don't know how much the term fits, but bear with me), AKA the radius within their body heat warms the air around them. It's usually a few millimeters HOWEVER the larger the body the wider the radius, the wider the radius, the longer it takes to get rid of extra body heat. For a large animal that can cause trouble, hampering heat dispersion and the presence of fur (which would hold the warmer air closer to the body) would cause overheating. This is the reason why small mammals in Africa often are quite fluffy while giant mammals are almost furless... and it's also the reason why large dinosaurs are often depicted mostly featherless.

[@xenoamen]

What's interesting is that in 1896, an expedition into the Cueva del Milodón cave in Chile uncovered mummified remains of a large species of Xenarthran called a Mylodon. This sloth was 3-4 meters in length and had a similar range to that of Megatherium. What's interesting is that the mummified remains showed the presence of a full hair coat. The hairs on the skin reached up to 150 cm in length. The top hairs on the skin were fully developed while the undercoat was missing, similar to two-toed sloths. What this means is that it was entirely possible for a large Xenarthran in a tropical environment to develop a full coat of hair, even if we don't entirely know why they would need it, and despite every factor you mentioned. With that in mind, it is plausible to infer that Megatherium did have elongated hair like modern sloths and Mylodons.

[@abduking.]

theres too many differences between the ground sloth and elephants to say they were hairless. Remember that xenarthrans have a far lower metabolism than any other mammals(except monotremes) so lower that a bear bear sized ground sloth was confirmed to have a lower internal temperature than humans. Megatherium 100% was hairy the size doesnt matter compared to the metabolism.

[@hugomas5207]

NOP Las plumas no funcionan igual que el pelo.

[@lolbabo7758]

@Dino Guy 19:24 the story of the tunnle remeber me of the show Avatar the last aribender where giant moles(who look like Megatherium) dig a sort of these tunnles.

[@raudhbansi2887]

Love your videos ❤️

[@EvolvedGodzilla360]

I recently heard of this old dinosaur detective movie called anonymous rex, where dinosaurs evolved to be human shape and they wear human disguises, one of the main characters as a velociraptor, so when you do the many interpretations of velociraptor, you should include that one

[@SAGOTO2006]

There is an older representation of the megatherium, which is from the documentary Age of mammals.

[@Osteoporosiphobic]

Mark D. Wolf's "Age of Mammals" (1981) has one of the earliest depictions of Megatherium seen on TV aswell as other creatures from the Cenozoic era. Also check out Wah Chang's Dinosaurs: "The Terrible Lizards" Revised edition (1970). You'll find some interesting vintage depictions of prehistoric creatures within these two short films.

[@christianbontempo8859]

Eremotherium appears in Wild New World, Jurassic Park Builder and Jurassic World The Game. Nothrotheriops (aka the Shasta Ground Sloth) also appears in Wild New World.

[@Green_knight8706]

Please do the many interpretations of Suchomimus

[@BrontoSmilodon1]

sounds La Brea has a time vortex situation with it's story.

[@PelicanMobBoss]

People forget that "sloth" refers to the entire suborder of folivora. Like how bears, raccoons, dogs, seals all belong to the suborder caniformia. So just because tree sloths and ground sloths are both sloths doesn't mean they're super closely related

[@DinoGuy8]

On that note, tree sloths are the closest modern relatives to ground sloths.

[@Aozame]

@@DinoGuy8 iirc, one of the living types of tree sloths is within a group of otherwise terrestrial species (which I guess makes it a tree ground sloth), and the other is just off on its own branch by itself.

[@brunohouthuys84]

Cool @@DinoGuy8 granted Megalonix was a bit more of a punching bag than Megatherium I mean in media itwas killed by a Short Faced Bear, a Smilodon Gracilis and a Titanis and have you ever wished that Both Megatherium and Megalonix were in the Dino Dan franchise and Prehistoric Kingdom that would be totally awesome don't you think? Also in Ice Age Giants (2013) there is another species of Giant Ground Sloth called Nothrotheriops Shastensis you should also update that knowledge to your giant ground sloth video please?

[@Hugo-Hatzegopteryx]

Please do oviraptor , styracosaurs , deinosuchus and please do Hatzegopteryx my favorite prehistoric creature

[@Y.Gigantae]

Could you do "The Many Interpretations of Phorusrhacos" or other Terrorbirds?

[@vicente14568]

I didn't know that Jefferson discovered Ice Age animals

[@megaguy7161]

The one in Natural History Museum Alive was actually Glossotherium.

[@BrontoSmilodon1]

Walking with beast's snout actually looks close to Two-toed sloths

[@PteranodonLongicepsGen1]

The gacha in ark is basically a sloth you should've added that

[@godzillafan19543]

You should do a Video about the Many interpretations of Neanderthals in media!!, that would be a cool one :)

[@brianlevine871]

It's probably just me, but considering that Scrat was a completely fictional animal, it's likely the same thing for Sid. Besides his amusing hammerhead eyes, he was shown in the first "Ice Age" movie sleeping on a tree branch (like tree sloths) while also being able to perfectly walk on the ground (like ground sloths). Either way, he at least put ground sloths on the map.

[@dagoodboy6424]

I found a ground sloth coprilite. Ground sloths are funny, till there not.💀

[@chancegivens9390]

Too bad thalassocnus dont ever show up. The idea of a giant aquatic sloth is awesome!! Then again, ground sloths in general are fantastic.

[@martimvieira806]

Im sad you didn't include Paramylodon 😢

[@alexciesielski1840]

There is also eremotherium and mylodon

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

What about Nothrotheriops

[@restionSerpentine]

Simpsons season 6 Tree house of terror 5, the segment time and punishment, follows the plot of a sound of thunder, with a time traveling toaster. When he squashes a bug, Homer asks harming one bug can't change things right? and a passing megatherium shrugs its shoulders. There is an episode of The real adventures of Johnny quest called Amok, where the titular Amok is loosely based on the cryptid Mapinguari based on ground sloths

[@manassestobias9763]

Sid could be a Shasta Ground Sloth (Nothrotheriops Shastenis)

[@lisalesher1691]

Sid for smash Bros

[@Alf-gm7tf]

Sid the sloth is the GOAT.

[@amandareeves5101]

Huh. I thought he was a sloth lol.

[@Alf-gm7tf]

Sid the goat

[@elmono6299]

🦥Here's 2 honorable mentions! The Giant Ground Sloth from The Unknown Island - for anyone who has never heard of this movie, which i guarantee is everyone. The Unknown Island is a 1940 public domain science fiction adventure film that's basically King Kong but replaces the giant ape with a giant sloth. However, the giant ground sloth doesn't look nor behave like its actual species. It looks like a hairy beast that's a cross between a werewolf, a grizzly bear, a gorilla, and a baboon. It roars like a big cat, and it's carnivorous. In the final battle, the giant sloth fights and kills a ceratosaurus by mauling its throat and pushing it off the cliff. The sounds of this fight were later used in Dawn of the Dead (1978) in the cutscene, where our survivors escape through a hunting shack in the zombie infested mall. The film is available on KZbin for free, and you can download it. Clocksloth from Terror Of Hemasaurus - in the indie kaiju platformer thats a spiritual successor to the arcade cult classic Rampage. One of the playable kaiju (and only mammal so far) is a giant ground sloth (with the face of a 3 toed sloth) who can bend time and space to get out of sticky situations. The game is available on PC, PS4&5, Xbox One & Series X, and Nintendo Switch for $12.99 ($7.99 during Steam sales).

[@BrickFilmBozo]

Literally my birthday 😂

[@TheChaos-y8n]

Giant ground sloth vs triceratops will be amazing ❤❤❤❤❤ 💯

[@nigelbeuorfondletheknife3971]

There is also one in the 90s animated show the Tick in the episode The Tick vs Prehistory

[@pirateclown8193]

I have a feeling that Sid design was based on a modern day sloth rather than a prehistoric one.

[@t-r-e-x452]

I also recall a documentary about the discovery of a giant sloth in a cave that is now underwater. I don't recall what sloth it was, but based on size and location, I think it could've been Megatherium or Eremotherium.

[@speedracer2008]

A giant sloth is featured in another episode of The Simpsons, called Treehouse of Horror V, with a pretty neat design, too.

[@mrsloth6826]

Sloths are epic

[@andrewwww1102]

I was always a bit disappointed they didn’t make Sid’s family buff as crap considering it would have been way funnier and more accurate for them to be.

[@brianmata1830]

Actually Jefferson thought the sloth claws were lion claws 😂

[@DinoGuy8]

At first he absolutely did. In fact, he thought it would be far superior to the African lion. It wasn’t until other large sloth fossils were found/identified that he changed his tune.

[@abduking.]

@@DinoGuy8 well he was right in the wrong way tho. There was a lion native to america that was much bigger than the african lion or any panther ever 😭he was confused but had the right sprit

[@keenansudworth9969]

There’s a giant mega sloth enemy in fallout 76 which is set in Appalachia and there was also was supposed to be Megalonyx armour but I think that got scrapped. You can earn plans of the megalonyx fossils in the game in the meat week event and display them in your CAMP

[@Pearl-if1cd]

Can you do the many interpretations of the triceratops?

[@avery2041]

Imagine Sid at his actually size, he could easily start shit with Manny and Diego

[@squidwardnosewarts]

I would love to see a megatherium version of sid the sloth going on the same exact adventures they did in the movies, imagine how that would affect the story Like in dawn of the dinosaurs, when they enter the cave and get attacked by an anky, i feel like manny and sid could fight it if sid was a megatherium. And in continental drift, sid would backhand slap that monkey absolutely SILLY. In conclusion, if sid the sloth was the same size as manny, that would be awesome Also i just like to imagine sid on all fours, looking really tired, then scratching his butt It would fit his character really well

[@crocdoctor7581]

we all care Sid lol these species are much more vast than I ever new but all still very interesting also love the fact that like Megatherium especially was thought to of ate Avocados so that's a lil detail that I think is hilarious and also fascinating also fun fact I think in the ice age movie they at least hinted that Sid and the other sloths lived in caves so it's cool that they tried to add that

[@AG-tl8oq]

I was Wondering when this would happen!

[@antoniobays3398]

I'd love to see you do a play through of fossils fighters

[@animedual225]

Can u do dire wolves next, if possible, idk if there's many of them in media but hey, never hurts to check

[@Rabbit-o-witz]

Can someone give me some insight on something? A lot of herbivores will sometimes indulge in some meat eating once in a while. Does that happen often the pther way around? Like, does a crocodile go like "hmm I could go for some bananas rn" or something like that?

[@DinoGuy8]

That is also something that will occur from time to time. I believe there’s video out there of a crocodile eating fruit. And even polar bears (which are known as hyper carnivores) have been known to eat berries if given the chance.

[@mlgodzilla4206]

WHATS UP MY MAMMALS THIS IS SID THE SLOTH FROM THE MOVIE ICE AGE

[@rorywalters1614]

I heard the one from La Brea was an Eremotherium, but whatever. They got Spinosaurus in California too.

[@WildQest]

But wont it be much Colder in tempeture than in now and days

[@DinoGuy8]

In South America at the time it was still decently warm.

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

Yep. It is the southern hemisphere

[@maxmantell5009]

What about monsters we met?

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

It’s a sloth but it’s the size of an elephant, it walks like a bear and eats like a giraffe. What an odd combination of behaviors

[@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434]

Although not all are elephant size. Plenty of ground sloth are roughly bear sized or slightly bigger

[@kevinquinonez838]

In the show La Brea that sloth is a Harlan's ground sloth

[@Scottishidk]

Waiting for my rhyniognatha interpretations

[@Y.Gigantae]

I always thought Sid was an Megatherium

[@wilberator9608]

Tyrannoslowness Rex

[@remuslazar2033]

Some of these designs look werewolf-like

[@maxmantell5009]

You should’ve done ground sloths in general

[@Ali-ii8il]

Sid is a Nothrotheriops by the way

[@bowser3017]

Where is Sloth Gargantuar from pvz2

[@superiorcybergodzilla5670]

Megatherium vs Palaeoloxodon 🦥🐘

[@pixltan]

honestly, i didn't know that sloth had a cool ancestor. i know megatherium is from ark because it's op. it is a cool creature that i glad it is extinct today

[@mari-du7wl]

koolasuchas cleelandi?