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between giant ground sloths, supersized caimans, predatory marsupial relatives, and late surviving notosuchians I hope that there is a documentary or any paleo media that takes place in South Amarica back when it was isolated.
Slight correction: Megatherium wasn't the largest ground sloth during the time, it was Eremotherium laurillardi. Both could reach 6 meters in length but Eremotherium had a more robust skeleton so it was heavier.
I have heard they might still have been hairy. One reason is we have found skin with fur on it from a giant ground sloth. Another reason for fur is sloths have a much slower metabolism than regular mammals so fur would have beem needed to keep warm
5:59 You should check the skulls, what you say is a Giant Ground Sloth skull, actually is of a Diprotodon, an Australian giant wombat. Giant Ground Sloth didn't have front teeth.
The megafauna was likely very tame towards humans because they didn't evolve to fear something so small. It's annoying when people pretend that Native Americans and other indigenous Americans are morally superior for "living in balance with nature". Yeah, after killing of dozens of species. They're human, just like everyone else, and it's quite hard for humans not to go around and slaughter whatever they can. It's just a pity that so many animals, especially of the megafauna, died out, be it in Europe or in the Americas. Also on most other continents apart from the African savannah.
@@solar0wind It is likely that more than just human hunting contributed to the extinction of megafauna, climate change and habitat loss, along with pressure and competition from other nonhuman animals played significant roles. Also, it's important to keep in mind that it's normal and natural for species to go extinct, regardless of human intervention. The earth is constantly changing, it's a brutal and harsh battleground where only the fittest survive, and where the definition of fitness is in constant flux. Some species will fail to adapt. You can't fault these early peoples for hunting megafauna like mammoth and sloth so that they could feed their families, they did what they had to do to survive. You or I would do the same thing in their shoes, simply out of necessity.
@@L3onking how many genocides you know were justified on the grounds of natural selection? Enslavement was never justified on the grounds of natural selection. Social Darwinism sure, but not natural selection.
When I was little, like younger than 5, back in the eighties, my mom would tell me all about and read to me about giant ground sloths and dimetrodons and eohippus. I still remember the feeling of sharing her delight in them even though I didn’t quite understand all the concepts of, like, evolution or extinction or supercontinents. Fueled a lifelong love of ancient megafauna and learning about evolution and paleo history!
considering the long history of life on earth, 10,000 years ago is next to nothing, really remarkable how close we are to our ancestors who were hunting these giant beasts
May we give a shout out video to "Antilocapra Americana" or the Pronghorn?! I love seeing them in southern Alberta, they look like they came straight over from the African Savanna!
There are local legends about a giant creature in the Amazon rainforest the locals call «Mapinguari», that is believed to resemble a ground sloth which has survive up to modern times. The only evidence we have however are eyewitness accounts from the locals, which makes it very far fetched for the legend to be actually true. But if the legends are old enough to date back to when early humans settlers first arrived and encountered them in south-America, then it is incredible how cultural memories can be preserved over thousands of generations oraly like this.
I have an old book written by Roy Chapman Andrews, called Strange Beasts of the Past, that reports a find of a ground sloth skeleton in a cave with hair, that indicated that it died only about 2,000 years ago.
What if the giant sloths were slow & droopy just like current day sloths? The claws on sloths today look just as scary and those who would see it for the first time might consider it to be an alien monster; Perhaps giant sloths were just slowly digging their caves like our sloths crawl on trees! Edit: Typo
IKR? I know it makes sense for them to be hairless because of their massive size and savannah habitat, but still, the image of a hairless giant sloth is cursed AF.
Scary slow, yes, but it would still be a horrible idea to get close to it, elephant seals today can be outrun by a toddler but if a person is dumb enough to get close within biting range, well, RIP.
I saw my first skeleton of one in the DC Smithsonian Museum of Natural history and was stunned at the sheer size of it. I could definitely imagine it would be a sloth with a nasty attitude
When I first saw the notification for a video about a giant ground sloth, I was amazed anyone wanted to make a documentary about my cousin Billy. 24 Keystone Lights in 3 hrs and that man becomes a boulder on the lawn.
There's some stuff in this video that just doesn't follow, e.g, the fact that we have evidence that humans preyed on some giant sloths does not necessarily mean that humans contributed in any significant way to the animal's extinction -- but the video says butchering marks on sloth bones means humans helped cause their extinction. Anyhow, simplistic stuff. But it's for kids, I guess, or simpletons.
The Megatherium is my all time Favorite Pleistocene Mega Fauna. In Fact... If I could choose. I would choose to have Giant Ground Sloths living Today, instead of the small tree living Sloths of Today.
Who would have though an animal the size of an elephant would want to dig into and live in the ground? I normally think of small critters like rabbits, prairie dogs, foxes, chipmunks 🐿️ 🐇 🦊 etc…
There's a shasta sloth skeleton, not fossil, in kartchner caverns, Tucson Arizona, which I think is quite neat! If we as a society ever clone some relatively recently extinct animals, I hope ground sloths would be one among those chosen species
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Please make a video about nanuqsaurus.
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If Ice Age was real, Sid would wear Diego like a fur coat
Pretty sure Sid is supposed to be an ancestor of modern sloth's.
if the ice age was real
@@rizzly_bear_420 it was...? Were still in one
Oh wait did you mean the movie?
Sid is apparently supposed to be a Megalonyx, which was I think just a bit over 6ft on all fours
There were smaller ground sloths byeah and be able to tell Manny to piss off.
between giant ground sloths, supersized caimans, predatory marsupial relatives, and late surviving notosuchians I hope that there is a documentary or any paleo media that takes place in South Amarica back when it was isolated.
You forget the biggest snake ever 😂 😂
We did have some weird animals back then, South America was the Australia of the Paleocene. 😂
@@ThisGuyNatures and Miocene.
Dude just imagine what's still there undiscovered
"Walking With Beasts," Episode #4 "Sabre Tooth" takes place 1 million years ago, about 1.5 million years after the Interchange.
I was completely unaware of these amazing creatures until a recent visit to one of their caves in the Chilean Patagonia. Very remarkable experience!
Too bad the natives genocided them.
Here in patagonia it's called milodon
If Ice Age were realistic, Sid would be the one strangling Diego instead of the other way around, LOL.
TBF Sid was meant to be a Megalonyx rather than a Megatherium, but yeah, Diego would still have more respect for a 2,000 pound sloth.
Slight correction: Megatherium wasn't the largest ground sloth during the time, it was Eremotherium laurillardi. Both could reach 6 meters in length but Eremotherium had a more robust skeleton so it was heavier.
Ratio
So they are Both "the biggest" one just weighed more....?
@@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 biggest usually refers to the most massive, or voluminous, where as they would both be the tallest ground sloth?
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I have loved the Giant Ground Sloth ever since I watched the one in " Walking with Beasts" kill a Saber Toothed Cat with one claw swipe.
I have heard they might still have been hairy. One reason is we have found skin with fur on it from a giant ground sloth. Another reason for fur is sloths have a much slower metabolism than regular mammals so fur would have beem needed to keep warm
Still, it was an interesting theory and the picture looked cool
5:59 You should check the skulls, what you say is a Giant Ground Sloth skull, actually is of a Diprotodon, an Australian giant wombat. Giant Ground Sloth didn't have front teeth.
Wow that's a pretty bad mistake
*Oh*
Ty for the correction that's interesting
Dang you’re right
Oooh, burn!
Sad that they are extinct. Can you imagine them roaming about in our modern world
I can imagine Incas taming then and fighting the Spanish with them
Snorlax 🥺
@@22espec that would be a great movie
Hunting mammoths and giant sloths, ancient humans were absolute madlads
Hungry lads
The megafauna was likely very tame towards humans because they didn't evolve to fear something so small. It's annoying when people pretend that Native Americans and other indigenous Americans are morally superior for "living in balance with nature". Yeah, after killing of dozens of species. They're human, just like everyone else, and it's quite hard for humans not to go around and slaughter whatever they can. It's just a pity that so many animals, especially of the megafauna, died out, be it in Europe or in the Americas. Also on most other continents apart from the African savannah.
@@solar0wind It is likely that more than just human hunting contributed to the extinction of megafauna, climate change and habitat loss, along with pressure and competition from other nonhuman animals played significant roles. Also, it's important to keep in mind that it's normal and natural for species to go extinct, regardless of human intervention. The earth is constantly changing, it's a brutal and harsh battleground where only the fittest survive, and where the definition of fitness is in constant flux. Some species will fail to adapt. You can't fault these early peoples for hunting megafauna like mammoth and sloth so that they could feed their families, they did what they had to do to survive. You or I would do the same thing in their shoes, simply out of necessity.
They were evil
kind of heartbreaking to remember that the rise of our own species was so dependent on extinguishing many other marvelous species.
@@mhdfrb9971 that's what they say about genocide but sure fam 💅🏾
@@L3onking what?
@@L3onking how many genocides you know were justified on the grounds of natural selection?
Enslavement was never justified on the grounds of natural selection. Social Darwinism sure, but not natural selection.
circle of life bro
@@L3onking you are crazy
this is what Sid The Sloth would've looked like if Ice Age was accurate. and he looks BADASS! 👌
Hah needed to scroll way to long to the comments to find a Sid comment! Upvote
@@pimcramer2569same
Correction: 5:58 isn't a ground sloth skull, it's a diprotodon
Cierto, Is a Diprotodon skull
SLOTHZILLA my fav! There's one at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Theoretically, giant ground sloth also speculated as the seed dispersal for avocado's giant seeds.
When I was little, like younger than 5, back in the eighties, my mom would tell me all about and read to me about giant ground sloths and dimetrodons and eohippus. I still remember the feeling of sharing her delight in them even though I didn’t quite understand all the concepts of, like, evolution or extinction or supercontinents. Fueled a lifelong love of ancient megafauna and learning about evolution and paleo history!
In Walking with Beasts the Megatherium was depicted eating carrion as well.
considering the long history of life on earth, 10,000 years ago is next to nothing, really remarkable how close we are to our ancestors who were hunting these giant beasts
Crazy
We are just a speck in history’s timeline
May we give a shout out video to "Antilocapra Americana" or the Pronghorn?! I love seeing them in southern Alberta, they look like they came straight over from the African Savanna!
theyre really unique, according to google they arent even bovines or cervids. theyre related to giraffes
What amazing animals, thank you for this.🖤🇨🇦
These are definitely my favourite mammals of bygone eras.
I JUST WENT TO A MUSEUM THAT HAD THE FOSSIL OF THIS ANIMAL WTF, WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
Elephants, Smurfs, Sloths and Armadillos are Xenarthras in that Puddle
Some ground sloths were omnivores.
Such as Mylodon
There are local legends about a giant creature in the Amazon rainforest the locals call «Mapinguari», that is believed to resemble a ground sloth which has survive up to modern times. The only evidence we have however are eyewitness accounts from the locals, which makes it very far fetched for the legend to be actually true. But if the legends are old enough to date back to when early humans settlers first arrived and encountered them in south-America, then it is incredible how cultural memories can be preserved over thousands of generations oraly like this.
Also 10,000 years is an eyeblink in the timespan of an ecosystem, up in idaho there are elephant bones that are less than 400 years old.
Giant Ground Sloths are very underrated prehistoric beasts. Really wish people knew about them more like their tree climbing descendents. 🦥
Keep pumping out Paleologic!
I'm from South America. I have never seen any of their caves but I've seen the fossils.
Challenge accepted? 😁
Find one!
* Insert Ice Age jokes here *
I love the combination of the drawing with the talking head shots. also nice ammonite necklace
This Channel has learn me very much things that I don’t know before I look on your first video ❤❤❤
I have an old book written by Roy Chapman Andrews, called Strange Beasts of the Past, that reports a find of a ground sloth skeleton in a cave with hair, that indicated that it died only about 2,000 years ago.
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Also, thank you, ground sloths, for avocados.
First! Always had a passion for Palaeontology, so happy to see it on this channel! 🦖
Huh, I have that exact giant sloth figurine on my desk. I got it from a cool little dinosaur museum in Morrison Colorado.
I want to tell you how much I enjoy the drawings done during your presentations!
10k years ago is an evolutionary blip. There's at least a few still alive in the wild.
The Peabody museum at Harvard in Cambridge has a monstrous example of Giant Ground sloth. Very impressive looking animal.
Saw a skeleton of one of these at a museum. They are absolutely MASSIVE
What if the giant sloths were slow & droopy just like current day sloths? The claws on sloths today look just as scary and those who would see it for the first time might consider it to be an alien monster; Perhaps giant sloths were just slowly digging their caves like our sloths crawl on trees!
Edit: Typo
I hope youll do the bell bird next xD that call of theirs is helarious! But how is it possible for them to sound so loud, weird and funny xD
“These were not animals you would mess around with” as opposed to all the other 4 ton mammals who are recommended animals to cross.
My favorite prehistoric mammals! 🦥💚
Thanks for all the info! Why did we become such small creatures? I can't seem to remember the reason, if I've ever heard it before xD
It's difficult to visualize them without hair, much like it's difficult to visualize dinosaurs with feathers. I'm thinking kind of like a shaved bear.
IKR? I know it makes sense for them to be hairless because of their massive size and savannah habitat, but still, the image of a hairless giant sloth is cursed AF.
@@cintronproductions9430 No it isn't, it's cool.
That thing must have been scary slow lol
Scary slow, yes, but it would still be a horrible idea to get close to it, elephant seals today can be outrun by a toddler but if a person is dumb enough to get close within biting range, well, RIP.
Please could you cover the Andrewsarchus at some point? I'm curious to see what Danielle's interpretation of their appearance is.
I saw my first skeleton of one in the DC Smithsonian Museum of Natural history and was stunned at the sheer size of it. I could definitely imagine it would be a sloth with a nasty attitude
All fun and games till one of these guys become a manhunter
Extinct? Maybe. But there’s the legend of the Mapinguari, which some believe could be a living giant ground sloth.
Some are convinced by religion too.
there's a giant sloth skeleton in the Paris Natural History Museum and it's one of my favorites to go and say hi to when I'm going there.
When I first saw the notification for a video about a giant ground sloth, I was amazed anyone wanted to make a documentary about my cousin Billy. 24 Keystone Lights in 3 hrs and that man becomes a boulder on the lawn.
Tier Zoo made a video about these guys! Glad to learn even more about them!
Talk about the terror birds!
Can we go further back to the Jurassic? I'd like to hear more about the Allosaurus please.
I'd like an episode on esperornis (the penguin like bird). Or the elephant bird (kiwi's ancestor).
ah yes, the bug smacker IFYKYK
She talks about South America like it's a couple neighborhoods away lol
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Excelente trabajo muy interesante 👏👏👏
in an episode of the 90's cartoon "The Tick", Arthur shouts "M-M-Megatherium!!!!!"
Where can I get toys like the ones you used in the video? They look so awesome. My nephew would go bonkers for them.
They were a raid boss back then.
You should talk about great white sharks, they're by far one of the coolest living animals
Fascinating. You pick the best animals!
There's some stuff in this video that just doesn't follow, e.g, the fact that we have evidence that humans preyed on some giant sloths does not necessarily mean that humans contributed in any significant way to the animal's extinction -- but the video says butchering marks on sloth bones means humans helped cause their extinction.
Anyhow, simplistic stuff. But it's for kids, I guess, or simpletons.
That aint a ground sloth thats a bear sloth
Just leaning on a sloth plushie as I watch this 😅
But wow, those burrows. I didn't know they dug burrows.
That commercial for better help was 2mins of your 8min video..
The Megatherium is my all time Favorite Pleistocene Mega Fauna. In Fact... If I could choose. I would choose to have Giant Ground Sloths living Today, instead of the small tree living Sloths of Today.
delightful video, thanks you guys
I love watching these videos I learned a lot from them
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Palaeozoic: Estemmenosuchus
Mesozoic: Quetzalcoatlus
Cenozoic: Daeodon
Still my favourite display at the ROM.
I heard they found a fossorial species of giant ground sloth, but didn't imagine their burrows would be these freaking massive caves!
When sloths were this tall, it is easier to farm chitin
Woolly mammoth.
Thank you, I've seen the miniature now. Thank you. Yes tha... god!
That’s not a sloth, thats a beaver
This. This is an animal we should bring back.
There are two species of modern sloths the two toed and the three toed
Wrong, there are 6 species.
Without those guys we couldn't have avocados, and what would we do then?
Forget jurassic park dinosaurs, let's bring these back!
Also fun fact: captain gutt is a gigantopithecus blacki
Paleologic Spinosaurus please!!! That's my most favourite dino!!!
Jaguar used to hunt and eat it. Now imagine how powerful is Jaguar
Who would have though an animal the size of an elephant would want to dig into and live in the ground? I normally think of small critters like rabbits, prairie dogs, foxes, chipmunks 🐿️ 🐇 🦊 etc…
Well presented. Can you find historic animal that show were an animal begin and end up on time? Like the Tasmanian devil ! Yea
can you please inform me more on the giant ichneumon wasp that was in my bavkyard yesterday i had a full blown panic attack at the sight of it!!!!
They have found their hair in caves in patagonia.
You know Sid the sloth from the Ice Age franchise is a giant ground 🦥
There's a shasta sloth skeleton, not fossil, in kartchner caverns, Tucson Arizona, which I think is quite neat! If we as a society ever clone some relatively recently extinct animals, I hope ground sloths would be one among those chosen species
What app do you use to draw because your art is AMAZING! 🤩
Lets gooo! Megatherium!
20 feet is crazy
It really tell us of what our hunter gatherer ancestor is capable of with stone and spear let alone our industrialized human today
Fun fact, there is a new study that says ground sloths subsisted on some meat.
For your next Paleologic video, you should a revisit of Tyrannosaurus rex.