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The wikipedia page on Megatherium, the giant ground sloth, doesn't mention paleoburrows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

• curtis 10y ago
  The impression that I got from the article is that we don't know yet, because the experts have not heard of this before either. It sounds like scientific study only goes back maybe a decade, it's been largely confined to Brazil, and the scientists involved are geologists, not paleobiologists. So is it for real? It sounds both crazy and plausible to me at the same time. I think it's too soon for us laypeople to draw any conclusions. I'm reasonably certain this is not an April Fool's joke. Here's an article in a Brazilian newspaper from 2015 (via Google Translate): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/caverna-escavada-por-mamiferos-gigantes-descoberta-na-amazonia-17032201&prev=search https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://...
  • lostlogin 10y ago
    Thanks - it's hard to be on alert when it's the 2nd here. I hope it isn't a joke.
• fsloth 10y ago
  If it's not in wikipedia it does not mean it does not exist.