When Giant Sloths Ruled the Americas

Imagine a time when sloths the size of elephants roamed the americas, these are the extinct ground sloths that went extinct just a few thousand years ago.
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[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Giant sloths are easily one of my favorite extinct animals! I really wish they were still around!

[@ClimateScepticSceptic-ub2rg]

Great video. On a small point, it's 'slow-th' to rhyme with 'growth' , not 'cloth'.

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

Good work I like this sort of channel.

[@charlesmartin1121]

A wonderful presentation on a little discussed topic. Just two things. Most large sloths were browers, not grazers. And the area of western North America, as shown on the map, did not become closed canopy forest after the last glaciation.

[@Donna230]

Animals of the past were clearly cool. :)

[@gammagrannie2764]

I don’t know why we were never told about any of these creatures at school. I had never heard of dinosaurs until I was about 30. So interesting.

[@PaleoSafari]

Well i mean we learn more every year, we didn't have a lot of these technologies for a long time (like dna technology)

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

I'm 54 and this is the first time I've ever heard of a 'munkey'.
Oops just turned 55

[@helendunn9905]

There is an amazing, complex world out there. ❤

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Whatever school you went to sucked. I definitely learned about these creatures in school AND in documentaries growing up.

[@gammagrannie2764]

@@MatthewTheWanderer I think it must have been because it would have gone against the religious teaching we got. I’m 77 so along time ago.

[@leticiarodrigues1780]

keep going

[@Thefriedchickenmaster]

You sir have earned a sub,i like science

[@PaleoSafari]

Thankyou

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

Now make a vídeo about the afrotherians and Eulipotyphlans

[@user-oo8uf1mv5j]

Cool vídeo, I fell asleep for a minute which is an awesome characteristic in a RUclips video for me 👍👍

[@colinmansell4592]

Amazing

[@lorrainequeenan3118]

Wow huge!

[@PaleoSafari]

Yes very big

[@injunsun]

@PaleoSafari, while 3-toed sloths share a common ancestor with giant sloths, what is your evidence the giants are their ancestors? I couldn't find any evidence of this, which you claimed twice. The Google result is botched, because it first says, "Yes," then turns around and says that they merely share a common ancestor, which is accurate. There are a lot of extinct apes with whom we share a common ancestor, but none of them but one is our actual linear ancestor. It would be like saying that extinct giant gorilla is our ancestor. @6:04, you literally said the Megas are "the closest ancestors of modern, 3-toed sloths." That is just untrue. A dead relative is not your ancestor. Your uncle is not your father.

[@PaleoSafari]

Yeah sorry for that i meant "relative" not "ancestor", and remains from giant sloths date back way before modern tree-dwelling sloths