Did This Giant Beast Roam the Earth with Man?


Did giant Ice Age beasts roam the Earth with man? Take a look at the skeleton pictured above. Do you know what that is? If you said cow, you were way off. No, it's not a turkey. Read on to find out:

Many interested naturalists visited the strange animal , but only in 1796 and based just on some drawings, the French anatomist Georges Cuvier identified it as a giant specimen of Ice Age sloth and named it Megatherium americanum (large mammal from America). King Charles IV of Spain was so fascinated by this creature that he ordered to the colonial authorities to capture one alive, if not an adult specimen, also a younger, smaller, would do.

However Cuvier, based on the lack of historic accounts of such an animal spotted in South America, proclaimed that there was little hope to succeed:

“…we hope that nobody thinks to search them for real, it would be like searching the animals of Daniel or the beasts of the apocalypse. Let us not even search for the mythical animals of the Persians, results of an even greater imagination.“

In 1870 the Argentine pioneering paleontologist and anthropologist Florentino Ameghino (born september 18, 1854 – 1911) discovered in the valley of the Rio Frias human and animal bones buried together, the animal bones showing marks left by stone tools. This was quite exceptional, at is was believed at the time that ancient Ice Age beasts, like giant sloths, and humans never coexisted. Then in 1898 Ameghino received a collection of tiny bones, extracted, so it was said, from a strange piece of skin, covered by reddish-gray fur. Ameghino identified the bones as dermal ossicles, similar to those found in the skin of Mylodon, a species of ground sloth of medium-sized proportions, known only from fossil remains excavated by geologist Charles Darwin in 1832. Ameghino published the discovery, even arguing that the new material appeared so well preserved and fresh, that it may came from a living specimen! To support this claim he added a tale by his friend Ramon Lista, politician, geographer and explorer. During an expedition in the province of Santa Cruz (south Patagonia) Lista supposedly encountered a strange cryptid. It resembled an pangolin (found however only in Asia), but instead of scales it was covered with long, reddish-grey fur. The animal was never identified, as Lista was soon killed after the supposed encounter. Ameghino, sure of the connection between the preserved skin and the mysterious sighting, named his discovery in honor of his deceased friend Neomylodon listai (the modern Mylodon of Lista).

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  1. A study published in for the Journal of Biogeography in 2009 by J.D. Lozier et al. used ecological niche modeling on reported sightings of Bigfoot, using their locations to infer Bigfoot's preferred ecological parameters. They found a very close match with the ecological parameters of the American black bear, Ursus americanus. They also note that an upright bear looks much like Bigfoot's purported appearance and consider it highly improbable that two species should have very similar ecological preferences, concluding that Bigfoot sightings are likely sightings of black bears.[96]

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    1. I wonder if Lozier et al are aware of how many professional, long term experienced hunters, forestry officers, etc, have reported full frontal, very distinct features to the anatomy that account for nothing that looks like a bear? Put it like this, bears are clumsy when they walk bipedally... They don't run and jump. When bears start walking/running with a stride, grow hands, lose the snout for a flat face and grow crazy width in their shoulders... And when these researchers start to develop from their naive outlook on the physical and biological evidence for Sasquatch in the very areas they claim to know so well... Then their research based on biogeography might have a truer reflectance of the facts.

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  2. For the love of Christ. Did Ice Age Beasts exist with Ice Age HUMANS? Nope. All those Mammoths committed suicide. With spears. And mutilated each with stone axes. Nancy Grace covered this...

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  3. This is definitely not a turkey



    However, the Provo Canyon Footage mostm CERTAINLY is....

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