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2023-03-29 17:22:06 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

These skeletons are not of humans, but rather of sloths. Giant ground sloths (genus Megatherium) lived in South America until going extinct around 12,000 years ago. Story: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/may-16-covid-unknowns-a-giant-sloth-graveyard-and-more-1.5569332/a-giant-sloth-graveyard-shows-how-these-enormous-animals-died-and-lived-1.5569340 Learn more about ground sloths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium

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• These skeletons are not of humans, but rather of sloths. Giant ground sloths (genus Megatherium) lived in South America until going extinct around 12,000 years ago. Story: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/may-16-covid-unknowns-a-giant-sloth-graveyard-and-more-1.5569332/a-giant-sloth-graveyard-shows-how-these-enormous-animals-died-and-lived-1.5569340 Learn more about ground sloths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium