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...Many of the passages are longer than 600 yards (550 meters) and tall enough for an adult to walk through without bending.

The leading idea is that giant, extinct ground sloths dug these colossal shelters, turning parts of South America into a maze of underground homes...

...the tunnel walls are packed with claw marks, sometimes in three parallel grooves, right where a digging limb would bite into rock...

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 131 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Clickbait title acting like it's a mystery...

It's obviously the giant sloths, because we can see the claw marks from giant sloths making them.

We've known for like a decade now.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 75 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah.... But we have no evidence that proves they were terrestrial sloths. They were obviously creating these complex tunnels deep underground to hide something. Something like a space craft or teleportation gate to the sloth dimension.

You're just afraid to dig up the truth. #slothgate

[–] ski11erboi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I recently read that these specific sloths evolved into transgender hermaphrodites which ultimately led to their extinction. They've actually traced their rise and fall to the implementation of space lazers causing massive flooding around the world. Funny how history repeats itself.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Also they made the frogs gay

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Not every conspiracy has to end with gate.

#TheSlothIsOutThere

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

oh, you're not even sarcastic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium

and here some people complain about moles

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah, going off memory but they're why avocados evolved too.

They were big enough to eat them whole and poop out the seeds, so they're the reason we have guacamole.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

Mom! The giant sloths have dug up the neighborhood again!

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Elephants are also known to dig caves in search of salt

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] halfdane@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Benutzername prüft aus

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

FTA:

Many of the passages are longer than 600 yards (550 meters) and tall enough for an adult to walk through without bending.

Checks out.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] rosefiend@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

badger badger badger badger badger badger badger SNAAAAAAAAKE SNAAAAAAAKE SNAAAAAAKE

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Naah, more like aliens.. /s

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

has anyone tried playing pan flute .music inside to see if any runes glow?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Shai hulud?

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 18 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

anyone who's played rimworld knows these guys

collapsed inline mediasmall image of a megasloth from rimworld

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck. I “bricked” my Rimworld with too many mods awhile ago. I need to get back to troubleshooting…I love that game.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Rip em all out and try the bare essentials. You know, cut the list down to just 100 or so mods.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Already did. There are about about 96 mods I can’t play without. You know how it goes. I should have waited longer after Odyssey to try and build a mod list.

I’m thinking I’ll just start over clean and it will fix itself because a lots must have been smoothed out by now. 

My first thought. Be careful though, those fuckers can rip arms off.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The photos in that old PDF they linked to are so cool, seeing all the claw marks.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

That’s is one big bunny…

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

this cave is not a natural formation

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 23 hours ago

Spoiler alert: OP's mom's bad dragon XXXL tri-colored tentacle

[–] phaedrus@piefed.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Where's Burt Gummer when you need him?