When Giant Sloths Explore Caves – They Get Hurt

Pathology – The left-over evidence of pain – has left its mark in the living world and the worlds of the dead. Not too long ago I explained the leftover remains of a mysterious flu-like illness in the buttressed bones of a long neck dinosaur, but more have been found throughout all geologic time periods, even epochs. For some reason giant ground sloths kept falling into holes in the ground and getting big ouchies, which was the least of their worries as they slowly starved to death in their damp musty underground coffins of calcite and dolostone. A set of giant ground sloth remains have just been newly described which tell us another story of how potentially dumb or lacking in luck these elephant-sized knuckle-walking sideways footed behemoths were. __________________________________________________________________ Art in Thumbnail belongs to - Julia d’Oliviera Twitter - __________________________________________________________________ ✅ PATREON ✅ ✅ STICKERS & SHIRTS ✅ ✅Facebook: ✅Twitter: ✅Instagram: @edgeonthetrail ✅ MUSIC ✅ “EDGE Theme” - Taung Child / Reuben Cozens “Hotel Pool” - Mallsoft “It’s 1993 and You’re in a Hotel Pool” - Vaporwave Mix __________________________________________________________________ If I’ve used something on my video that you don’t want me to use, PLEASE EMAIL ME first before flagging a video, I’m very reasonable and will take the video down to replace whatever image or video belongs to you. Email: expeditiondiscoveryguild@ __________________________________________________________________ RESEARCH de S. Barbosa, F.H., de Araújo-Júnior, H.I., da Costa, I. et al. Spinal fracture reveals an accident episode in Eremotherium laurillardi shedding light on the formation of a fossil assemblage. Sci Rep 12, 4119 (2022).