Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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At Tanque Loma, at least 22 giant ground sloths in the genus Eremotherium met their end. Of the five hypotheses that researchers proposed for what killed the sloths, the best supported one right now is that they died surrounded by their own poop.
Thanks to Dr. Emily Lindsey for providing a number of photos from Tanque Loma for this episode! And thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi for the excellent reconstructions of Eremotherium and Tanque Loma: / artoffabricious
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With a title like that, how could we not watch?
Hello!
Pure clickbait, yes.
Hi minute earth
Yes, how could YOU not watch it?! 😂
This made me laugh more than it should have.
Moral of the story: Don’t poop where you drink.
Yes,it is that hard?
@@lordgrunwalder1607 You know about the Broad Street pump and John Snow?
@@lordgrunwalder1607 You'd be surprised how many people are still ignoring this basic life principle. That's why we still have cholera, type A hepatitis and a whole lot of other easily preventable diseases killing people around the world every day.
@@lordgrunwalder1607 as someone with pets, yeah, it's a hard concept for many animals.
@@lordgrunwalder1607, people of 19th century: yes
Never expected to hear "Death by Poop Hypothesis" spoken on a science channel, but this is still really fascinating
The Familial Fecal Fatality Phenomenon
Just checked out some of your vids, good stuff!
Poop is part of science, and lots of people have died from poop. Look up cholera.
Sloth 1: Chief! Our kinsmen are dying out rapidly and we don't know why
Sloth 2: Well, sh*t!
*sloths continue shitting and mysteriously dying* :P
Sir, yes sir!!!
Sloth 2: do you mind not talking to me while I’m going number 2.
Gotta' admit, that'd be really on-brand for sloths.
It sucks how true you are
For everyone who doesn't know: sloths are known for dying while pooping, because they climb down to the ground to do their No. 2. They're actually somewhat aware of the danger this imposes and thus hold on to their poop for a week or more, so that they don't have to go to the ground as often.
Nobody knows why they don't just poop from the branch they hang on. Maybe it hasn't occured to them, yet, that this is a possibility.
Lol dammit William that's so true.
@@lonestarr1490 it's not just that, sloths poop in the same place (I think).
So it's on brand for sloths to be surrounded by poo too.
@@lonestarr1490 they are a little stupid
How did no one think to call this “death by scat-tastrophe”?!
there were not enough autistic weebs around
@@mogyesz9 guys look we’ve got an edgy cool guy over here
You win the Internet for today.
@@ianharac5153 oof
@Ringonus I'm sure he'll no longer use that word since you told him not to on the internet.
"Died surrounded by their own poop."
Look, we've all been stuck inside for a long time, but...
What can you expect without toilet paper?
@@TragoudistrosMPH hahahaha
When you gotta go you gotta go...
Imagine cholera riddled group of people forced to be quarantined into a small pool. The nightmares! Worse than the Saw movies.
I love toilets.
Missed opportunity to refer to the "death by poop hypothesis" as the "hyPOOthesis"
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Geeet OUT!
NO
Yes
Very clever!😹
Imagine where we would be if these mass death sites didn't exist. They capture so much of the life of these eras.
We would probably be in front of our computers looking at a different video
Rather literally.
Every fossil is nothing more than a snapshot, and a collection of luck that the snapshot would be preserved. Whatever we've figured out is only a fraction of what actually existed, maybe probably. Who knows what lived and wasn't fossilized
But then with the dinosaurs humans can’t evolve because of thanks to a drought in Africa which is million years after the dinosaurs extinction
I had a really dark thought.
8:08 - the glint of sheer joy in Callie’s eyes when she talks about sloth poop is truly a delight to behold! 👁
her enthusiasm is unfailing and adorable
I think it was more an attempt to control her immature thoughts...
You give off foot worship vibes.
@@samwilts6016 wtf?
@@dwaynowilli6822poop jokes are dumb lmao but I can see it being hard not to make a pun xD but I think she could also just be happy to learn?… 😅
Got hit by that notification and was like
"Wow, that...that sure is a title."
I'm gonna be honest, I was getting real worried once I saw Eons hadn't released a new video in a month. I'm thrilled you guys are back at it!
I suppose gaps in RUclips posts worry us all, but I just assumed they were probably taking vacation or something. So, I hope that at least a couple weeks of their month away was spent relaxing!
Its cause they are doing there jbs
Little known fact: Their final words?…”Oh Crap.” lol
Lol
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*craps
So true!
That would be weird as hell that they spoke English, wow, nature shure is wheird
Manny : "Poor Sid..."
Diego : "Yeah, these guys don't even know what a latrine is..."
Me seeing the title: Huh. That sounds weird
Me and hour later: *I need to know if those giant sloths pooped themselves to death*
Same
What
I am a geologist from Ecuador, I knew about the find, it is good to see new research being done in the area. Keep up with your videos, I enjoy them a lot!.
Finally!!! They’re back!!!
And about time too!
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@@minecraftstation6422 I@q
@@isaiahgarza87 The newest member of the Eons crew..(?)
I love the way the three hosts pass the ball between each other. Energy! Vitality! No time to sleep!
Welcome to the team, Michelle! You're great! Would you have ever guessed your first appearance on the channel would involve you saying poop so much? 😂
Dude for real 💯🤣 and welcome though
Cheers! It’s a great intro for this channel 😂😂😂. She has a really nice speaking style!
I just wanted to let you guys know, I've been having a lot of anxiety attacks and I'm working on getting in to a doctor for it, but anytime I'm having a full blown attack and I'm alone I turn to your videos. You guys have really soothing voices and help distract me and ground me. Plus all the information is incredible. But I really wanted to thank you for all you guys do. I've probably watched every single one of your videos at least twice if not more
I know it's been 3 years but I really hope you're doing better!!
Finally some relatable content
ty, i was worried i was the only one.
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I laughed way to hard at this
Please tell me you use a toilet...
The happiest I've ever seen a person be while saying "that's gross and weird."
My lord. Never seen such a brutal, yet hilarious title on a science channel 😳😂
I was 4 minutes in before I realized I should probably watch this after I finish my dinner...
I just blindly clicked on a new eons video not even looking at the title. XD
With what we get from Washington DC we are all going to die from *oop.
Eons team gotta tell you, when you do a show together with many hosts
Gets me excited, and it feels serious beautiful
Never realized how much I love learning about the era before humans. I'm starting to look on the internet for trilobite fossils because of you guys
If there's a gem and mineral show near you they'll probably have some trilobites or ammonites. Plus the folks there are almost always willing to talk to a fellow fossil enthusiast.
Really enjoyed having the contributions of 3 great hosts! Thank you!
The kind of notification you only find acceptable when it's from PBS Eons.
PBS eons: did these sloths poop themselves to death?
Ark players: nahh I forgot to feed them and they just pooped while they were dying
Fascinating. Disgusting, but fascinating
On a related note, are there other known fossilized latrine sites like this? Not only for the sake of latrine deposits.. I'm wondering if there's been anything like the guano in bat caves or the poop from nesting penguins in the fossil record.
Fossilized guano! What a cool idea!!
oohh pterasaur guano (if they produced it...)!!?!?
Red guano is the fossilized, "aged", version of guano, and coprolite mining is actually a thing. If we are looking at sites with more scientific attention, again sloth is quite the culprit. There are caves literally filled with Nothrotheriops dung in the southwest US, giving us a pretty good idea of their diet
I don't think they're quite fossilized, but Rock Hyrax latrines have been used for studying the history of climate change in Africa over the last 50,000-ish years.
SciShow did a video on it last year. ruclips.net/video/v360hZbwnPs/видео.html
Hyraceum is the petrified and rock-like excrement composed of both urine and feces excreted by the Cape hyrax
@@TragoudistrosMPH that's a good point: were caves an unexploited niche before birds since pterosaurs couldn't hang?
I love how this channel basically formed my personality. What would I have BEEN without this wonder of a channel.
Woohoo!!! Yeah I missed you guys!!
💖Welcome @Michelle Barboza-Ramirez!💖
Thank you, Kallie, for having all of you in the one video, so that I can stop thinking that Michelle is actually just you after you reinvented yourself!
Glad to see the PBS Eons team growing! Looking forward to even more bizarre discoveries!
Every channel should return from hiatus with a poop video.
I've been waiting for your next video for so long! Can't wait to watch this
I love this channel. Such a perfectly paced, well written episode again, and this wasn't even the best one by far. Im not even that into biology but man Eons is maybe the best yt channel I've ever seen.
Its a got damn delight to watch every time.
Welcome to Eons Michelle!
Yesss
A big hello to Michelle! Always nice to see some new faces in your videos.
And also please always keep Blake. I love his adorable dad jokes.
I really enjoyed all three hosts in one video!
Another awesome video, thanks guys!
I'd love to see a video on why ceratopsian dinosaurs have such a diverse range of head ornamentations. Also another more quirky suggestion would have to be how the zebra got it's stripes :)
Sloths are terrifying animals.
I will never forget the Sloth victim in Se7en
... ... trapped in a room, unable to go anywhere for months... 😬
Love the new format of having numerous hosts
That is one nasty way to go out.😕
I was expecting something to be discussed about their diet and how they probably had explosive diarrhea or something horrible like that. It ended up being a much crappier way to die. I'm glad we're not giant animals.
Welcome aboard Michelle!
Just a quick question: So, when exactly did Hank stop hosting on this channel? I feel it's been a while now...
He probably just has too much going on! He’s involved in sooooo many science channels AND I think he’s tiktok’s uncle now? You can’t click on a biology video without finding his name in the credits. Poor guy probably doesn’t have time to poop. I hope he still pops up occasionally!
He's been hosting on the PBS Bizarre Beasts channel.
It was a couple years ago, I'd say something around 2019. So yeah it's refreshing to have a new host in the crew and the idea to do a 3 host episode to introduce the newcomer is pretty clever.
All in all : Welcome Michelle :)
Pretty sure Hank is spread thin between projects and just managing everything. He's the executive producer on this video for example.
@@paranoidrodent He is indeed the producer of many shows. I guess his clever strategy is to host a starting show to boost it up using his own notoriety then slowly disappearing in the shadow to start another.
Greetings from Ecuador! Glad to see there is real research on Science and Paleontology around :) Local media never publishes (they don't even know, I bet...)
Michelle has a wonderful voice! Can't wait for more content!
Cool pants, too!
I am amazed by the narration skills of all the three narrators. Hats off guys, you magically convert words on such complex topics so effortlessly into easy to understand language.
“We’re bringing in all Eons hosts to solve this mystery.”
Holy crap.
Wait.
they forgot John Green
It is always so neat to see, to SEE, a specific event that happened to temporally specific individuals rather than a longer trend as happened to generations of lifeforms.
I MISSED YOU!! I've been waiting patiently (thats a lie, I wasn't patient at all lol) for a new episode and this is certainly a great return video! Welcome Michelle to the team and I can't wait to see you in future videos
First things first: I like your new way of integrating more than one host in the same subject without cutting the flow, it was really really nice : 3
This is frickin MIND BLOWING, way to make one of my favorite animal groups even more ridiculous!!
I love that PBS digital studio titles often sound like click bait but they always live up to it, because the universe is really that weird
"Did these giant sloths poop themselves to death?"
To quote a certain youtube channel "Intriguing, but highly disturbing".
lol, whats that quote from
@@michaelwerkov3438 Gamerpoop
Welcome back to my favourite educational channel! And welcome Michelle!
Him: "...sloths go solo or "HANG SOLO."
~badoop pa~
Me: grooooooan~so bad it's funny 🤣🤣
Very articulate presenters. Presumably animals normally realise when a watering hole is no longer functioning as a survival refuge and set off to try and reach a better one, but perhaps slow moving sloths knew they would not have stood a chance and died of thirst on the way, so their only chance was to stay put and wait for rain.
I've been watching you on TikTok for a while and absolutely forgot Michelle is considered new lol
What happened to Hank? When did he leave the program?
@@EyeOfEld probably went on to do other projects, as he usually does.
@@yuvalne Thanks.
@@EyeOfEld Hank's doing SciShow and SciShow Space and Bizarre Beasts and who knows what else. And he's a New York Times bestselling author. And of course there are the Vlogbrothers and the Project for Awesome and Complexly LLC, the video production company he co-founded. So I'd guess his schedule is kinda crammed to the brim.
06:55 You had "The Fatal Feces Hypothesis" right there.
1) Michelle is great, caught the accurate Ecuador pronunciation, her voice is great for narration. 2) still love Blake being the dork
Absolutely stoked you guys are back
"Dead by poop hypothesis" is now my favorite hypothesis.
Really nice to have you all presenting! :)
we're finally back!!! \o/ Welcome Michelle! And, as always, Steve!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to the artist @8:19 who had to portray sloths pooping themselves to death
Sid went out in the most embarassing way
I really love this mystery solving format. gj
CSI: Paleontology
GIL: How do you think they died?
Horatio: Slowly...very slowly 🦥
Nice to finally see you presenting, Michelle!
Also, we were all missing you guys a ton. Great to have you back!
It's always interesting how living animals can help provide information about how extinct animals would have lived, even if they aren't related, just by occupying a similar niche.
Yay!! Eons is back! I missed you guys!
What is it with sloths and dangerous pooping 😂
The best part about this click-bait title is that it's 100% accurate!
More please 😁( I just love this channel so much)
This opens up the possibilities of a group of prehistoric cats that died from their own poop, until they evolved to bury their poop
So I was sort-of correct in my initial guess: that they ate or drank something that gave them acute dysentery, or a similar disease. I did NOT expect the contaminant to be their own poop, though - figured the piles of poop were the symptom, not the cause. Also interesting to hear modern-day critters can make the same mistake. (Welcome, Michelle! Heck of an introduction, and heck of a start for the new season: CoproDoom.)
I love how all of you contributed to this group project
Michelle has everything needed to present Eons: good delivery, clear understanding and perfectly timed puns.
My beloved Eons! I missed your videos so much these past few weeks!
Greatest. Clickbait. Ever.
What a welcome back 😎🏆
What. This isn't even clickbait lol
The new host seems natural and relaxed which is good of course. I need my regular fix of Kallie and Blake too though. Great that Eons is back!
new host yay! they're great!
Me at 3am: I should sleep
RUclips: Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
Me: ok well I have to know
So that’s what happened to Sid.
Welcome, Michelle!
Your style is immaculate, and your voice is nice to listen to! I look forward to seeing you present in future videos!
this channel never stops getting better
Its back!! I've waited 65 million years for this!
Always nervous when new hosts are introduced, but Michelle seems great already! 👍
Michelle is great! Excellent cadence and captivating presenter. Glad to see the team expanding!
oh my god the title just made me burst out LAUGHING AHAAHA
I wonder what the prompts that PBS gave their illustrators for this video were like: Giant sloths at watering hole, dead giant sloths at watering hole surrounded by poop. Lol
Whatever the proponents of Hypothesis 2 think caused that is now my sleep paralysis demon
You guys are so Brilliant! I have def seen more than half of half of your video's over the past year
It's called deathication
when they said they brought all of the eons hosts, they forgot John Green :(
"How did dinosaurs survive without credit cards?"
They didn't.
Birds: Quit telling everyone I'm DEAD!!!
They actually did.
Welcome back Eons! And welcome to the team Michelle!
I still miss Steve
Poor guy pooped himself to death. Tragic.
Your channel makes me happy.