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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 162 points 1 month ago

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 88 points 1 month ago

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 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 month ago

Also they made the frogs gay

[-] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Not every conspiracy has to end with gate.

#TheSlothIsOutThere

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Goddammit!

✌️ I'm not a gate. ✌️

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not a gate.

I can tell by your gait.

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

oh, you're not even sarcastic

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

and here some people complain about moles

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month 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 month ago

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

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Elephants are also known to dig caves in search of salt

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