They Were 8,000-Pound Sloths With Claws and Armor – Then Humans Showed Up

Scitech Daily ^ | June 03, 2025 | Jerald Pinson, Florida Museum of Natural History

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Mmmm...sloth

[redfreedom]

OMG! How awful, those mean old nasty humans meant the demise of these poor sloths. And to think the caveman’s invention of fire led to glowbull warming.

There is a solution to all of this we must embrace. Humans, in particular the white race, must be eliminated. The only allowable exceptions will be the wealthy elites that want global power. They may also have people of color as their servants. /s/

I’m making that sarcastic remark because of the way the thread title is written.

[Red Badger]

It was POC’s that made them extinct...............

[Red Badger]

Tastes like.......................MAMMOTH!..............

[BitWielder1]

Wait, did the climate start changing as soon as humans showed up?
Long before the industrial revolution, long before SUVs?
Or maybe Giant Sloth just tasted good.

[Red Badger]

Giant Sloth = GIANT BBQ’s..........................

[sappy]

sooo, native populations hunted it to extinction? you don’t say?

[Red Badger]

Invaders....................

[alternatives?]

The pictures don’t show armor.

[frithguild]

There’s still debate about what happened to sloths, but given that humans arrived in North America at about the same time sloths went extinct in droves, it’s not hard to speculate.

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

[Red Badger]

They were so slow they didn’t show up for the photo shoot................

[Red Badger]

CoVid-0000001........................

[sonova]

Michelle? Is that yo hairy as.....

[SunkenCiv]

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[SunkenCiv]

Nice twofer!

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[FroggyTheGremlim]

1936, paleontologists discovered a mound of fossilized sloth poop, bat guano and packrat middens

They sold it on eBay.

[gundog]

And they probably let a lot of it go to waste. A couple of tons of leftover sloth might require refrigeration.

[PeterPrinciple]

And what was the co2 level when these giant sloth roamed?

[AZJeep]

The natives were not that good servants of the land as they are described.
They caused massive extinctions all around the world.

E.g. Maori landed at the shores of New Zeeland only like 1300. Yet they managed massive extinction of New Zeeland species like Moa or Haast Eagle.
Very quickly!