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2023-03-30 01:04:33 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E57C3AA7D1F193219D6BFD2DBD441BE013DA65CE11C44C4A3C68C0C75D1896D2
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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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