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[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago

Can you imagine being stuck in the dawn of human agriculture, and you seek shelter in a nice cave that you found.... And then a Giant Sloth just lumbers in after a bit.

I mean, I imagine any Homo species of the time would know not to go inside one of these, but still.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 3 months ago

So not giant sloths specifically, but Australian Aboriginals have oral histories describing megafauna that went extinct around the same time period

[-] blasstula@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

wow, that implies an aboriginal oral history spanning at least 40,000 years if true

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