The MANY Interpretations of Megatherium & Megalonyx!

Taking a look at two of my all time favorite ground sloths!
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00:00 Megatherium
11:20 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.

[@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.

[@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?!"_

[@sandeepkunwar9518]

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

[@evodolka]

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

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

I know right!? It would be so cool

[@surprisedcastle7928]

Ice age trio finally finished!

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@MarshalMarrs-eu9yh]

Megatherium also appeared in a manga called “cage of Eden” where a group of them tried to eat some of the characters who were stuck inside of the crashed plane before being driven away by the main male protagonist.

[@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.

[@shadowmarauder6033]

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

[@tm43977]

The interpretation of the Giant ground sloth and Sid join here

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Giant anteaters walk in similar ways.

[@ggrarl]

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

[@karandeepkalsi]

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

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

Or even terror birds, Titanoboa, or Doedicurus

[@Intrusion498]

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

[@Dinossword]

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

[@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.

[@user-rt8up8kg9l]

Same here

[@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

[@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.

[@MrT_Rex]

Who want some dandelion salad ?

[@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

[@NetheriteGuy14-vs7ne]

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

[@user-yu9vk5kz8w]

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

[@christianmanka3884]

Fallout 76 has a really fun Mega Sloth

[@GatorBoyCL]

Sid is a unit

[@plumzilla29]

MY FAVOURITE BIG SLOW HUNGRY 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.

[@majorstroud]

Yes!!! Futurama!!!

[@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

[@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".

[@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! ❤

[@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.

[@boazarel4631]

The Ice Age trio is complete.

[@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.

[@Green_knight8706]

Please do the many interpretations of Suchomimus

[@SAGOTO2006]

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

[@vicenteamaro7369]

I didn't know that Jefferson discovered Ice Age animals

[@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

[@Hugo-Hatzegopteryx]

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

[@matveynoname7083]

12:09 yeah, today we call it Bigfoot

[@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.

[@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

[@prehistoricchannel128]

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

[@Aozame]

@@prehistoricchannel128 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 @@prehistoricchannel128 granted Megalonix was a bit more of a punching bag than Megatherium I mean in media I was killed by a Short Faced Bear, a Smilodon Gracilis and a Titanis

[@handsome_El_guapo]

Yess 🦥🌳‼️ keep doing this series, love it

[@BrontoSmilodon1]

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

[@BrontoSmilodon1]

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

[@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).

[@terrysyvertson9205]

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

[@BrickFilmBozo]

Literally my birthday 😂

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@PteranodonLongicepsGen1]

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

[@raudhbansi2887]

Love your videos ❤️

[@godzillafan19543]

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

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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).

[@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

[@megaguy7161]

The one in Natural History Museum Alive was actually Glossotherium.

[@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.

[@ShockedPool]

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

[@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

[@manassestobias9763]

Sid could be a Shasta Ground Sloth (Nothrotheriops Shastenis)

[@speedracer2008]

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

[@Alf-gm7tf]

Sid the sloth is the GOAT.

[@amandareeves5101]

Huh. I thought he was a sloth lol.

[@Alf-gm7tf]

Sid the goat

[@avery2041]

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

[@mrsloth6826]

Sloths are epic

[@nigelbeuorfondletheknife3971]

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

[@AG-tl8oq]

I was Wondering when this would happen!

[@dagoodboy6424]

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

[@pirateclown8193]

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

[@lisalesher1691]

Sid for smash Bros

[@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

[@rorywalters1614]

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

[@brianmata1830]

Actually Jefferson thought the sloth claws were lion claws 😂

[@prehistoricchannel128]

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.]

@@prehistoricchannel128 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

[@antoniobays3398]

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

[@alexciesielski1840]

There is also eremotherium and mylodon

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

What about Nothrotheriops

[@martimvieira806]

Im sad you didn't include Paramylodon 😢

[@mlgodzilla4206]

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

[@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?

[@prehistoricchannel128]

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.

[@kevinquinonez838]

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

[@ShockedPool]

I always thought Sid was an Megatherium

[@wilberator9608]

Tyrannoslowness Rex

[@remuslazar2033]

Some of these designs look werewolf-like

[@animedual225]

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

[@Pearl-if1cd]

Can you do the many interpretations of the triceratops?

[@husuftan1554]

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

[@Scottishidk]

Waiting for my rhyniognatha interpretations

[@Ali-ii8il]

Sid is a Nothrotheriops by the way

[@superiorcybergodzilla5670]

Megatherium vs Palaeoloxodon 🦥🐘

[@abduking.]

even with its size megatherium was most likely still haired. There a lot of differences between an elephant and a giant ground sloth so just comparing there sizes isnt a valid arguement. Megatherium like all sloths had a very low metabolism and to give you perspective the jefferson ground sloth was though to have a lower internal temperature than humans. Yes the jefferson ground sloth is much smaller than a megatherium but they are also much larger than a human, Its so low it would be considered hypothermic in a human which is crazy. Even if we scale for size the megatherium probably still had a much lower internal temperature than elephants of the same size which could prevent overheating. second point to consider is that megatherium 100% descends from very haired ancestors which is important. A trait is much more likely to be retain when its ancestors had traits are only shed due to necessity. And there close relatives were all haired too and there kinda large as well. The shasta ground sloth a very close relative of the giant ground sloths was confirmed to have a heavy coat of fur. The glossotherium which is a distant relative but also very large like around rhino sized or higher was confirmed to have fur. Elephants literally descend from small hairless ancestors so it makes sense that when they got large there hair never came back. This isnt the case for the ground sloth who 100% descended from very hairy ancestor there hair is more likely to be reduces than gone completely. third point there lifestyle. Giant ground sloths were know to dig burrows with there giant claws which they could rest in. The point of the borrow might be to shade them during the hotter day for them to come out at night. While this is all just speculation it still has some foundation as we still do not know what the burrows were used for. With that lifestyle fur as a trait might still be necessary as the nights are significantly colder than the day. I truly dont think the giant ground sloths were hairless like elephant just with point 1 alone this theory crumbles at worse i think they may have had giraffe fur but i think a larger coat may be more likely maybe not to the extent of modern sloths but something closer to that

[@prehistoricchannel128]

“there are strong indications that extinct giants - seemingly regardless of metabolic rate - had major issues with heat loss. It's quite reasonable to assume that this could have influenced aspects of their anatomy and appearance.” (Mark P. Wittons Blog) I recommend checking it out.

[@arkplayer22]

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

[@prehistoricchannel128]

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

[@MarkTheDilophosaurus281]

Yep. It is the southern hemisphere

[@Frogboyaidan]

🦥

[@mari-du7wl]

koolasuchas cleelandi?

[@dozierworld4350]

did you block my comments because i bombarded you with triceratops requests. I won't do it again now that I know it's coming. I was just linking something you might like.

[@prehistoricchannel128]

Nope, I have yet to block any comments.

[@dozierworld4350]

@@prehistoricchannel128 then where have the links been going

[@prehistoricchannel128]

Oh if there were links attached, sometimes KZbin will hold them for review. A lot of scam and bot accounts post links, so it gets flagged as suspicious.

[@cuckoshroom5394]

If you put some kind of music Maybe lofi your videos will be more attention grabbing

[@godzilla44556]

a giant sloth how boring

[@liopleurodon2000]

Until you realize Megatherium is the size of a mammoth and has claws that can shred solid rock to dig huge tunnels and turn a saber tooth cat's face into a ketchup stain

[@godzilla44556]

@@liopleurodon2000 excuse me W H A T

[@liopleurodon2000]

@@godzilla44556 yep. there's these huge tunnels that were discovered in Brazil that were dug by a giant ground sloth. much like how modern anteaters have huge claws to dig up termite mounds which are usually as hard as concrete. and you can bet those claws were excellent self defense tools. if an anteater can wreck a jaguar with a good claw swipe just imagine what these behemoths were capable of

[@godzilla44556]

@@liopleurodon2000 W H A T !

[@liopleurodon2000]

@@godzilla44556 not so boring now are they

[@steventhompson3268]

Megatherium and Megalonyx are here today and the ground sloths are big as grizzly bears. 🦥

[@DaSpinoGuy]

DAVID. ATTENBOROUGH'S ALIVE MENTIONED🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥