Posted on 06/06/2025 5:44:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oph no, human made climate change killed off the giant sloth! Where was Greta’s ancestors, because they could have gone to the UC (UNITED CAVES) and say ‘How dare you kill off the Giant Sloth!’ 😀
Humans and their spears killed killed all the sloths and every other species over 150 lbs in the Holocene. And it happened all at once. Could not possibly have been anything else. Humans really are that bad
Then as the Americas filled with humans, tribal warfare became constant and the golden age ended. Probably 14-15 thousand years ago.
I should mention that homicide rates in the golden age were very high, because that is what we see in small hunting societies. Without a government and larger ideology to teach young men not to kill their own, homicide rates are very large.
The Sloths don’t wear armor to bed. They take it off silly so they can sleep.
It’s fun to learn new interesting stuff.
Thanks
Impossible.
Climate change is a wholly modern condition - caused solely by humans. It didn't happen before the modern era of internal combustion engines, factory emissions, cattle farming and urban development.
Be sure to check out SunkenCiv’s comment#15. The book there by Firestone and company does a good job of eliminating the recent humans from the charge of big mammal murderers. Having read this book, and other supportive sources, I believe that multiple large boloid hits caused massive damage to the earth around 13,000 years ago. There are a number of suggestive supports.
* The Carolina Bays — these large Ovoid water sites were probably caused by huge blocks of ice being thrown by massive blows to the glaciers to the north being thrown in all directions. The oval shape of these pools in Carolina and elsewhere mostly show a directionality toward Lake Michigan.
* Lake Michigan was probably caused by 2 or 3 huge rocks. Two at either end, and a smaller one in the middle, as shown by lake bottom surveys.
* The Clovid Indian civilization dominant at that time was largely extinguished. Fortunately, archeologists are now actually looking for settlers here before Clovid.
* A colder period called the Younger Dryas began at that time and continued for more than 1,000 years.
* Nostradamus (I may remember this name wrong) and others have written about seeing huge masses of animal bones of that age found in great heaps in Alaska and elsewhere.
* Flash frozen mammoths of that age have been found in Siberia with fresh green food in their stomachs, indicating a worldwide northern hemisphere event(s).
I could go on, but you can order from a Google site and enjoy reading it yourself. Thank you SC.
if they weren’t so dang tasty...
Sloth Jerky!.................
I was mistaken in my previous comment it was not Nostradamus, but rather Velikovsky. I asked Google “who was the writer last century whose science ideas were criticised by many scientists?”
Velikovsky and his theories:
* Velikovsky was a Russian catastrophist who published the book Worlds in Collision in 1950.
* In this book, he presented theories about the history of Earth and the solar system based on comparative mythology.
* central claim was that Venus was ejected from Jupiter as a comet-like object and then passed close to Earth, causing widespread natural disasters recorded in ancient myths and religions.
In the 1960s I read his Worlds in Collision and others he wrote. I was not convinced by his planetary ideas, but found a number of his suggested proofs to be of interest. One of them was description of massive layers of mingled bones to be found in Alaska and/or Canada.
Did you all notice the writer mentioned that the long term temperature trend is down
I betcha they were tasty!
The heat, I guess that explains Africn elephants and Rhinos.
Nostradamus wasn’t a scientist, and wasn’t in the last century, either. :^)
My pleasure.
shorter list of keywords from above, and hey, nice job!
>> New research shows 8,000-pound sloths once dug caves, adapted to oceans, and roamed widely—until climate and humans brought their downfall.
“(Artist’s concept.)” ROFL! They sure can conceive a lot from a couple bone fragments! Now do earth’s climate! LOL
Good name for a liberal band.
In the cartoon movie ‘Zootopia’ where anthropomorphic animals are portrayed as society types, the ‘sloths’ are DMV clerks.................
Apt.
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