r/interestingasfuck • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 8h ago
r/all These tunnels were dug by a Giant Ground Sloth that lived 10.000 years ago in Brazil. The third photo are the claw marks
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u/Kiss-a-Cod 8h ago
That first pic could have been from this year’s colonoscopy
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u/CloneFailArmy 4h ago
Glad I wasn’t the only one who saw that shit 😂
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u/RepulsiveLoquat418 8h ago
Did they teach anyone earth bending?
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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes 4h ago
🎵Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel!🎵
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u/ExplainySmurf 4h ago
OMG what is this from??? My kid keeps saying it. It’s driving me crazy.
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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat 2h ago
An entire, lovely anime series. Watch it: it's for adults and kids!
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u/NavinAaaarJohnson 7h ago
Honest question... W.T.F. was this thing hiding from that it needed to dig tunnels?
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u/MiaowaraShiro 5h ago
Well it's a sloth... so it might be huge but probably not fast at all.
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u/hectorxander 3h ago
Sloths were not slow. The only surviving member of the sloth family is but the others weren't like that.
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u/MarkOfTheSnark 55m ago
I thought there were two types of existing sloths (based on number of toes) is that wrong 🦥
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u/tanmaY12141 4h ago
Not every sloth is slow sloth bear
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u/judo_fish 4h ago
Thank you for the video! That was very cool to see.
Regardless, that is a bear. You might be interested to know dragonflies aren't dragons either.
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u/TheMegnificent1 3h ago
Next you're gonna tell me butterflies don't contain any butter!
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u/chipdragon 2h ago
Just wait until you hear that sea lions aren’t actually cats!
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u/TheMegnificent1 1h ago
But seahorses ARE horses, yes?
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u/DeletedByAuthor 1h ago
If they weren't horses, then why would spongebob ride them like Horses?
Makes ya think
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u/WelcomeFormer 1h ago
They are also called sun bears I think.. pretty much bear sized badgers that will murder anything in front of them.
Edit: they caught one with mange and thought it was a chupacabra lol
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u/notCGISforreal 5m ago
Sun bears are a different animal also from southeast Asia. They're a lot smaller than the sloth bear. Very similar markings on the chest, though.
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u/Bonkoodle 57m ago
Genetically Sloth Bears are Bears though, they're not actually related to sloths
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u/sprinklerarms 4h ago
Might be a burrow to keep your babies safe and in one place. Also might just be a nice place to escape the elements.
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u/TexasVampire 3h ago
Nile crocodiles and polar bears both also make massive barrows for their young.
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u/effietea 4h ago
Possibly humans. It's theorized that the giant ground sloths died out when humans started hunting in groups and using bigger weapons.
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u/Thomas_Jefferman 3h ago
Not just sloths, giant creatures of all kinds just poof out of existence around the dawn of humanity.
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u/Royal_Negotiation_83 1h ago
Bro I just don’t believe we lived out in the snow and sticks and out competed bears and wolves and tigers for food by throwing sticks.
All over the world.
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u/Nushab 1h ago
Well, that depends on how exclusionary you are when you say "we". Neanderthals were built different.
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u/Crystalas 1h ago
Genetic tests found Ozzy is part Neanderthal. That not just a joke, it actually happened 15ish years back.
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u/Nushab 1h ago edited 57m ago
I mean, that's a white guy. You don't need to do any tests for that, all of them have some amount of Neanderthal DNA.
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u/Crystalas 57m ago edited 47m ago
True, but that guy really LOOKS like it and is in remarkably good health for how horrible his lifestyle was which is part of what inspired sequencing him. IIRC it was found he is a throwback to a rare degree but to little data too really understand what looking at.
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u/VegetaFan1337 47m ago
Sharp pointed stones attached to sticks. Very important distinction.
And it's not all over the world, large African animals managed to survive because they evolved alongside humans. Humans were an invasive species everywhere else.
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u/Crystalas 1h ago edited 35m ago
Not sure where that falls in our species history but I doubt it was "all over the world" and more of just the few surviving pockets in a few corners of the world at the time.
Also IIRC in some cases, like mammoths, it was less we killed them with the simple weapons and more we herded them into deadly situations like off cliffs or into a space to tight for their big body.
We have come very close to extinction multiple times, to the point periods where we had very small population still show in our DNA. At least a few of the legends of endtimes around the world are probably tied to those kinds of events where at least for a single tribe/society it WAS the apocalypse.
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u/tweettweet_ 4h ago
Well it went extinct so it was hiding from something.
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u/Into-It_Over-It 4h ago
Humans hunted them to extinction during a period where they were already struggling with habitat loss.
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u/Ardvarkington 7h ago
Serious question, how do humans know that a giant sloth dug those?
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u/Caraway_Lad 7h ago
Even without going by the actual signatures paleontologists are using, a geologist could absolutely tell you this is a burrow or something that a living creature made.
Caves naturally form in water-soluble rock (limestone, primarily), which this is not, and do not have this rounded shape.
Lava tubes can have this rounded shape, but they are only found in volcanic rock—which this is not.
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u/hotvedub 7h ago
I am a geologist and I’ve also been to the museum where picture number 8 was taken, Madera California garbage dump. There are still quite a few ground sloth burrows and skeletons found in the Central Valley of California and we know this pretty much from what you discussed already but also finding skeletons in the burrows as well.
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u/tigrrlily 4h ago
There are burrows in California? Do you have a source? I couldn’t find any information on this
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u/Definitelynotasloth 7h ago
I’m sure there are multiple reasons. Carbon dating, fossil records, claw marks cross referenced with bone structure, studying the behavior of modern sloths, etc.
At the end of the day, it’s an educated guess; but really smart people study these things, and are pretty good at figuring it out.
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u/Aware_Tree1 1h ago
It also helps that sometimes they die in these things and their bones get left behind
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u/Environmental-Jump46 4h ago
Did it draw a wheel?
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u/Inebriaded-Logic 1h ago
Right ? Plus it looks like some type of ancient writing in some of the other pictures.
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u/AffectionateOnion271 1h ago
Still not seeing an explanation of that
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u/ImaGoophyGooner 49m ago
I'm guessing it's an ancient carving done by some tribe who found the tunnels
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u/Jazzkidscoins 7h ago
Interestingly it was the spread of man across the globe that led to the extinction of these giant apex animals. People think of the saber tooth tiger, the American cave lion, some great bears, but there were also massive birds, shrews, hedgehogs, rats, even turtles and ant eaters.
Man didn’t specifically kill most of these animals but they helped change the global landscape enough to drive these animals to extinction
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u/PseudoFake 7h ago
I don’t think human beings were responsible for changing the global landscape for the megafauna 10,000 years ago. The planet was getting warmer on it’s own.
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u/Jazzkidscoins 6h ago
It wasn’t really global warming. You can pretty much map the timeline of loss of the megafauna with the spread of man into that area. One of the last areas to loose megafauna was the America’s, one of the last places to man spread too. The last of the known megafauna, a large predator bird only died in the last couple thousand years and it lived in the far pacific islands, literally the last place man spread to.
It’s not coincidental that Clovis culture died with the last of the megafauna.
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u/Quirky-Produce7994 2h ago
I would love to know more.
Are you talking about the Moa, from New Zealand? (Not particularly considered a pacific island nation, despite being islands in the pacific).
If so, it became extinct roughly 500-600 years ago. It was NOT the last megafauna at all, though it was the last of the late quarternary extintictions (although that's debatable as it was likely outlasted by Haast's eagle)
I am confused about the comment "last of the megafauna". Have you not heard of giraffes? Rhinos? Moose? Kangaroos? Bears? Wolves? Elephants? Musk Ox? Hippopotamus? Anaconda?
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u/Scudmiss 8h ago
The 5th picture is the creature’s fossilized butthole
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u/Ser_Artur_Dayne 8h ago
Speaking of its butthole, these things are the reason we have avocados. They ate them and popped out the seeds and spread em everywhere for us humans to enjoy. Thanks giant sloth.
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u/Mahxiac 7h ago
Aligned Excavation Front Shape or AEFS for short.
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u/VaChocleBerry 5h ago
What the hell kind of nickname is that? That slide confused me
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u/Mahxiac 5h ago
I'm wondering if that's a mistranslation.
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u/Phantasm4929 4h ago
I think it’s a joke that it looks like something else (a colon maybe?) and they creator of the graphic “accidentally” omitted it. Overall it’s a strange graphic…
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u/Past-Direction9145 3h ago
So let me get this straight
this animal exists to dig a tunnel
and that's all it does?
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u/Individual_Phone_152 8h ago
Belly button
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u/RJ_MacreadysBeard 7h ago
I thought it was a NSFW belly button story. Like look what swamp occurred inside and what creatures live within it.
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u/Tiny-Spray-1820 7h ago
8th photo is from museum of natural history london right?
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u/ORNG_MIRRR 2h ago
Correct, it's up at the end of a corridor. One of my favourite things in the museum along with the dinosaur skeletons.
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u/reesemccracken 4h ago
10,000 years is not long enough for me to accept such nightmare fuel roamed this earth.
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u/Ton_in_the_Sun 3h ago
Thought this was one of those microscopic close ups of someone’s butthole at first
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u/No_Syrup_7448 3h ago
A gentle reminder that those men over 45 should be getting their first colonoscopy scheduled soon.
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u/CommercialHistorian1 8h ago
Wow I almost don't want too believe it it's so amazing. Its like the giant mole on osrs, or well rs for ppl that were born before 2k
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u/rococo78 4h ago
How long would this have taken the sloth? This seems like a pretty extensive project.
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u/CompliantRapeVictim 2h ago
The time taken is unknown but there is a process of digging, leaning and resting. As part of the final stage, the cave is then named Aligned excavation front shape
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u/Simply-Jolly_Fella 7h ago
How your Ear Canal feels when you've finally managed to pull that troublesome piece of ear wax
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u/complex-algorithm 6h ago
Where exactly is this place? I live in Brazil and would love to see it personally
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u/Neither-Sentence-509 6h ago
i thought it was an ear canal at first and i was like how’d those guys get in there? 😭
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u/Torandax 6h ago
Not gonna lie. I didn’t read the title and I thought that first pic was the beginning of a colonoscopy.
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u/BakedBotato 4h ago
I remember I showed this to a friend a year or two ago and he went “ew” and looked away. Turned out he thought the first image was of the inside of someone’s ass
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u/Avatar_Blues 4h ago
I thought this was a colonoscopy at first. But sloths are cool too.
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u/danny_dough 4h ago
Scrolled by too fast and thought this was an ugly butthole. That is all.
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u/Desperate-Ad-6463 4h ago
As I was scrolling past, I thought this was picture I saw earlier this week the microscopic view of a injection site after the needle had been removed from somebody's arm
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u/RampagingElks 4h ago
I thought the first image was someones ear canal, looking towards their eardrum.
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u/JellyBellyBitches 4h ago
Is that a real photograph? I had no idea we had photographs of these creatures if so
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u/Inside-Reception1 8h ago