c/science · by Delta_V@lemmy.world · 257d

Huge tunnels discovered that were not made by humans or geology

https://www.earth.com/news/huge-tunnels-in-south-america-possibly-created-by-giant-ice-age-sloths/

...Many of the passages are longer than 600 yards (550 meters) and tall enough for an adult to walk through without bending.

The leading idea is that giant, extinct ground sloths dug these colossal shelters, turning parts of South America into a maze of underground homes...

...the tunnel walls are packed with claw marks, sometimes in three parallel grooves, right where a digging limb would bite into rock...

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 162 pts · 257d (11 replies)

Clickbait title acting like it's a mystery...

It's obviously the giant sloths, because we can see the claw marks from giant sloths making them.

We've known for like a decade now.

TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 88 pts · 257d (6 replies)

Yeah.... But we have no evidence that proves they were terrestrial sloths. They were obviously creating these complex tunnels deep underground to hide something. Something like a space craft or teleportation gate to the sloth dimension.

You're just afraid to dig up the truth. #slothgate

ski11erboi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 257d

I recently read that these specific sloths evolved into transgender hermaphrodites which ultimately led to their extinction. They've actually traced their rise and fall to the implementation of space lazers causing massive flooding around the world. Funny how history repeats itself.

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 256d

Also they made the frogs gay

GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 256d (3 replies)

Not every conspiracy has to end with gate.

#TheSlothIsOutThere

monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d (2 replies)

#TheSlothIsOutThereByTheGate

GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 255d (1 reply)

Goddammit!

✌️ I'm not a gate. ✌️

victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d

I'm not a gate.

I can tell by your gait.

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 257d (2 replies)

oh, you're not even sarcastic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium

and here some people complain about moles

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 257d

Yeah, going off memory but they're why avocados evolved too.

They were big enough to eat them whole and poop out the seeds, so they're the reason we have guacamole.

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 256d

Mom! The giant sloths have dug up the neighborhood again!

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 256d

Elephants are also known to dig caves in search of salt

DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 78 pts · 257d (1 reply)

halfdane@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 257d

Benutzername prüft aus

toynbee@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 257d (1 reply)

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 256d

FTA:

Many of the passages are longer than 600 yards (550 meters) and tall enough for an adult to walk through without bending.

Checks out.

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 257d (3 replies)

Badger moles?

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 257d (1 reply)

It just says... badger

rosefiend@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d

badger badger badger badger badger badger badger SNAAAAAAAAKE SNAAAAAAAKE SNAAAAAAKE

itkovian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d

Naah, more like aliens.. /s

crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 25 pts · 257d (1 reply)

has anyone tried playing pan flute .music inside to see if any runes glow?

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 257d

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 257d (1 reply)

Shai hulud?

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 254d

Before it moved into RFK's brain

noxypaws@pawb.social · 19 pts · 256d (4 replies)

anyone who's played rimworld knows these guys

MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 6 pts · 256d (2 replies)

Fuck. I “bricked” my Rimworld with too many mods awhile ago. I need to get back to troubleshooting…I love that game.

SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 256d (1 reply)

Rip em all out and try the bare essentials. You know, cut the list down to just 100 or so mods.

MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 2 pts · 256d

Already did. There are about about 96 mods I can’t play without. You know how it goes. I should have waited longer after Odyssey to try and build a mod list.

I’m thinking I’ll just start over clean and it will fix itself because a lots must have been smoothed out by now.

iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 256d

My first thought. Be careful though, those fuckers can rip arms off.

ziggurat@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 255d (1 reply)

Of course this is not ground sloths, that's rediculous, they are too slow

This is of course the earthbending badgermoles

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d

SECRET TUNNEL

secret tunnel

through the mountain

secret secret secret secret

#TUNNEL