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Topic started on 6-1-2009 @ 07:21 PM by SLAYER69
I was going through some of the older threads and found this one
Giant Sloth still alive?

In it they had posted a video that was in Spanish regarding some evidence found that points to a living Giant Sloth

I'll re post the video here


Then as I was reading the post and later watching the video I remembered seeing on another web page some pictures somebody took of a possible Bigfoot.

Linky here
and
Here

I remember them because this did not seem like a typical "Bigfoot" picture.
This creature was fat around the waist, had shrugged shoulders and had long claws.

Here is what a giant sloth would have looked like.



And this is what they spotted


I remember back then thinking that this was a real bad Bigfoot fraud but after seeing this video and doing some reading and learned that the Giant Sloth as far as we know it supposedly died out fairly recently

Source

Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, mammals in the edentate superorder Xenarthra. They may have died out as recently as 1550 AD in Hispaniola and Cuba,[1] but had long since been extinct on the mainland of North and South America. The term "ground sloth" is used as a reference for all extinct sloths because of the large size of the earliest forms discovered, as opposed to the extant "tree sloths." However, this is an historical convention and does not imply that all extinct sloths were strictly terrestrial in nature.[2]


More info on what they could be
Here
and
Here


So what do you think? Could this thing still be around?

Please let me know
SLAY


reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 08:26 PM by SLAYER69
reply to post by lupusyonderboy



I know and Sloths are nasty haired animals hardly any grooming so that would explain the nasty looking mottled hair!


reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 11:40 AM by fritzM
reply to post by SLAYER69



Yes they were able to walk on their hind legs. But I don't think that was their regular mode of transportation. In what I've read, the hind leg thing was for reaching up into trees. But their walking on the hind legs was supposed to be similar to a bear. Able to do it, but not very affective compared to on all fours.



reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 01:47 PM by SLAYER69
Here is a follow up story on possible living giant sloths this time in
South America
Linky

As far as walking on two feet good point and if it is a modern version of a giant sloth maybe it lost its tail?

Compare these to the possible Giant Sloth mistaken for a "Bigfoot" in the OP

And another thing if these things are out there I wonder as they are walking around on all fours how many times have people glanced at them deep in the woods and just thought to themselves
"Oh theres a bear" And dont give it a second thought?








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