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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 151 points 2 days 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 85 points 2 days 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 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 4 points 1 day ago

Also they made the frogs gay

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not every conspiracy has to end with gate.

#TheSlothIsOutThere

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

#TheSlothIsOutThereByTheGate

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Goddammit!

✌️ I'm not a gate. ✌️

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I'm not a gate.

I can tell by your gait.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days 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 13 points 2 days 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 1 day ago

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

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Elephants are also known to dig caves in search of salt

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] halfdane@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Benutzername prüft aus

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] rosefiend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

badger badger badger badger badger badger badger SNAAAAAAAAKE SNAAAAAAAKE SNAAAAAAKE

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Naah, more like aliens.. /s

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Shai hulud?

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

anyone who's played rimworld knows these guys

collapsed inline mediasmall image of a megasloth from rimworld

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 6 points 1 day 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 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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.

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Of course this is not ground sloths, that's rediculous, they are too slow

This is of course the earthbending badgermoles

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

SECRET TUNNEL

secret tunnel

through the mountain

secret secret secret secret

#TUNNEL

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 12 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

That’s is one big bunny…

[–] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

this cave is not a natural formation

[–] phaedrus@piefed.world 4 points 2 days ago

Where's Burt Gummer when you need him?

[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 10 hours ago
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Could have been south American flying kangaroos.

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

Don't be silly. Everyone knows the South American Flying Kangaroo made nests in tall trees from the bones of their victims.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Sandworms!

Now the US will invade to "just take the spice."

[–] usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

It was me I made them (I was bored)