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2023-03-30 08:49:09 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4A6F01021E2A0EC82F114ED932E8FE5A453DBFED1FD8DDC5F3608AF552C6C36B
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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
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