I see fingers anyway. Don't sloths have huge ass claws?

Boooo

Hey I never said it was real but if you can give us a link to that info on being a fraud I'd love to see it.

It's not improbable to believe that there are certain species that survived. Want proof? How about the Coelacanth?

Coelacanth

Until 1938 the coelacanth was believed to have been extinct for over 65 million years. Individual fish may live to be 60 years old. Large dark brown to blue-grey fish that can grow to about 2 m/6 ft in length, and weigh up to 73 kg/160 lb. It has bony, overlapping scales, and muscular lobe (limblike) fins sometimes used like oars when swimming and for balance while resting on the sea floor. They feed on other fish, and give birth to live young rather than shedding eggs as most fish do. Coelacanth fossils exist dating back over 400 million years and coelacanth were believed to be extinct until one was caught in 1938 off the coast of South Africa. For this reason they are sometimes referred to as ‘living fossils’. Populations have since been discovered off the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean, the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, and Sodwana Bay on the northeast coast of South Africa.

With this in mind, it's not completely ludicrous to believe that there could be species still surviving out there without being discovered.

Originally posted by Razimus


2 different stories, I get mixed up when it comes to bigfoot stories, they all seem to mesh together for me probably because I don't buy it....

Yeah OK cool fake "Bigfoot" right!

Originally posted by Kandinsky
Good thread. I've never even thought about ground sloths in my life. Had a look at the pictures and read up on them. Also learnt about newly discovered critters in Tanzania. Flagged as a thanks

Looking at the pics of the 'beast', I don't think anyone could be convinced. They look wrong and unnatural. I couldn't work out if it's a guy in a sloth outfit or a stuffed representation of a sloth. Surely there can't be much for demand for a sloth outfit? That's right. Couldn't find any for rental although there is definitely (as pointed out) what looks like an elbow. It seems to be stuck in that position. The glimpses behind the bushes seem to be in the same position, hard to be certain.

True I think I'm the only one putting the two together as a possible sloth match.
The one in the picture is supposed to be some sort of Bigfoot not a sloth.

A Bigfoot with long claws like a sloth. Again if somebody is going to fake a Bigfoot why make it so unlike a typical Bigfoot? Also if I’m not mistaken giant sloths had elbows.

Originally posted by scubagravy
its too proportional to a human, look at pics 4 & 5.

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with E....

Giveup ??

An Elbow, a pointy human one at that. Looks nothing like the plushy full body haired replica the man is standing next to in the above picture.

Costume shops must be busy these days

Edit: and where is that waggly tail ?
[edit on 6/1/2009 by scubagravy]

Agreed!

The elbow looks just like a human elbow inside a loose costume. I wouldn't bite this one, seems fake.

Reminds me of all the footage of bigfoot, aliens, ghosts, loch ness monster. Until I shake it's hand I will have a hard time believing it.

thats cool guys I never said it was real just makes you think is all
Thanks for posting.

Hmm first, recent forum reader, first time poster... with that out of the way.

This is actually rather interesting to me since it brings up a recent memory of a series of photos (3 or 4) I saw on a website which I cant remember for the life of me now, was about 6 months ago or so... it might have actually been on Cryptomundo when i think about it, i'll have to give em a check after this to make sure.

They where rather unusual, not the best of detail and comments left about the images by the sites visitors pretty much gave the impression that others either thought it was a bear or was definitely NOT a Bigfoot, but not a Bear either.

The photos where black and white either due to the time period they where taken in or for other reasons. They showed up close (given the scale of objects in the photos say 10 foot), an odd creature. Bear like, very dark in color, on four legs with a giant ant eaters form of posture with a longish neck and head that was pretty close matching to what you'd think a Giant Sloth would look like (or at least very similar to the OP's first example photo of the guy in blue near the statue) just not as large. It was also if I remember rather shaggy or almost very shaggy (wish I remembered where I saw them ). It was standing (on all 4's) in a grove of rather thinly spaced trees (no idea what type of tree but they were rather thin). Given its size in relation to the angle of the photographers eye level it was pretty large.

If only I could remember where I saw those photos, anyone else know the Photos im talking about?

Was just neat reading a forum post here at ATS and suddenly having my memory jogged of them and thinking "Oh thats what it could have been!" since Giant Sloth never really crossed my mind the first time i saw the photos.

As for the OP's links to the photos on Cryptomundo... definitely a guy in old bear skins with a frame on his shoulders holding up the upper half of the get up, might have been more hard to laugh at, if they had taken the time to hide or obscured the seam/overlap along the back leg/hip of the costume in the last 2 photos.

Ive loved cryptozoology since I was 4, just hate it when idiots run the sciences credibility down with constant ridiculous hoaxs like that one.

Anyway I only hope some one else knows the photos im talking about or even the site their on which would be great. As for Giant sloths or some sort of similar ancestor of em still being around, id say theres a pretty good chance.

cheers

[edit on 25-1-2009 by BigfootNZ]