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At Tanque Loma, at least 22 giant ground sloths in the genus Eremotherium met their end. Of the five hypotheses that researchers proposed for what killed the sloths, the best supported one right now is that they died surrounded by their own poop.
Thanks to Dr. Emily Lindsey for providing a number of photos from Tanque Loma for this episode! And thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi for the excellent reconstructions of Eremotherium and Tanque Loma: / artoffabricious
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With a title like that, how could we not watch?
Hello!
Pure clickbait, yes.
Hi minute earth
Yes, how could YOU not watch it?! 😂
This made me laugh more than it should have.
Moral of the story: Don’t poop where you drink.
Yes,it is that hard?
@@lordgrunwalder1607 You know about the Broad Street pump and John Snow?
@@lordgrunwalder1607 You'd be surprised how many people are still ignoring this basic life principle. That's why we still have cholera, type A hepatitis and a whole lot of other easily preventable diseases killing people around the world every day.
@@lordgrunwalder1607 as someone with pets, yeah, it's a hard concept for many animals.
@@lordgrunwalder1607, people of 19th century: yes
Gotta' admit, that'd be really on-brand for sloths.
It sucks how true you are
For everyone who doesn't know: sloths are known for dying while pooping, because they climb down to the ground to do their No. 2. They're actually somewhat aware of the danger this imposes and thus hold on to their poop for a week or more, so that they don't have to go to the ground as often.
Nobody knows why they don't just poop from the branch they hang on. Maybe it hasn't occured to them, yet, that this is a possibility.
Lol dammit William that's so true.
@@lonestarr1490 it's not just that, sloths poop in the same place (I think).
So it's on brand for sloths to be surrounded by poo too.
@@lonestarr1490 they are a little stupid
Missed opportunity to refer to the "death by poop hypothesis" as the "hyPOOthesis"
💩
Geeet OUT!
NO
Yes
Very clever!😹
"Died surrounded by their own poop."
Look, we've all been stuck inside for a long time, but...
What can you expect without toilet paper?
@@TragoudistrosMPH hahahaha
When you gotta go you gotta go...
Imagine cholera riddled group of people forced to be quarantined into a small pool. The nightmares! Worse than the Saw movies.
I love toilets.
How did no one think to call this “death by scat-tastrophe”?!
there were not enough autistic weebs around
@@mogyesz9 guys look we’ve got an edgy cool guy over here
You win the Internet for today.
@@ianharac5153 oof
@Ringonus I'm sure he'll no longer use that word since you told him not to on the internet.
Got hit by that notification and was like
"Wow, that...that sure is a title."
Sloth 1: Chief! Our kinsmen are dying out rapidly and we don't know why
Sloth 2: Well, sh*t!
*sloths continue shitting and mysteriously dying* :P
Sir, yes sir!!!
Sloth 2: do you mind not talking to me while I’m going number 2.
Imagine where we would be if these mass death sites didn't exist. They capture so much of the life of these eras.
We would probably be in front of our computers looking at a different video
Rather literally.
Every fossil is nothing more than a snapshot, and a collection of luck that the snapshot would be preserved. Whatever we've figured out is only a fraction of what actually existed, maybe probably. Who knows what lived and wasn't fossilized
But then with the dinosaurs humans can’t evolve because of thanks to a drought in Africa which is million years after the dinosaurs extinction
I had a really dark thought.
8:08 - the glint of sheer joy in Callie’s eyes when she talks about sloth poop is truly a delight to behold! 👁
brah 💀
her enthusiasm is unfailing and adorable
I think it was more an attempt to control her immature thoughts...
You give off foot worship vibes.
@@samwilts6016 wtf?
Never expected to hear "Death by Poop Hypothesis" spoken on a science channel, but this is still really fascinating
The Familial Fecal Fatality Phenomenon
Just checked out some of your vids, good stuff!
Poop is part of science, and lots of people have died from poop. Look up cholera.
Manny : "Poor Sid..."
Diego : "Yeah, these guys don't even know what a latrine is..."
Little known fact: Their final words?…”Oh Crap.” lol
Lol
🤣
*craps
So true!
That would be weird as hell that they spoke English, wow, nature shure is wheird
I'm gonna be honest, I was getting real worried once I saw Eons hadn't released a new video in a month. I'm thrilled you guys are back at it!
I suppose gaps in TH-cam posts worry us all, but I just assumed they were probably taking vacation or something. So, I hope that at least a couple weeks of their month away was spent relaxing!
Its cause they are doing there jbs
Me seeing the title: Huh. That sounds weird
Me and hour later: *I need to know if those giant sloths pooped themselves to death*
Same
What
PBS eons: did these sloths poop themselves to death?
Ark players: nahh I forgot to feed them and they just pooped while they were dying
Finally!!! They’re back!!!
And about time too!
I'm excited ლ(・﹏・ლ)
Yeah!
@@minecraftstation6422 I@q
@@isaiahgarza87 The newest member of the Eons crew..(?)
The happiest I've ever seen a person be while saying "that's gross and weird."
My lord. Never seen such a brutal, yet hilarious title on a science channel 😳😂
I was 4 minutes in before I realized I should probably watch this after I finish my dinner...
I just blindly clicked on a new eons video not even looking at the title. XD
With what we get from Washington DC we are all going to die from *oop.
I love the way the three hosts pass the ball between each other. Energy! Vitality! No time to sleep!
Finally some relatable content
ty, i was worried i was the only one.
hihihihi!
I laughed way to hard at this
Please tell me you use a toilet...
I am a geologist from Ecuador, I knew about the find, it is good to see new research being done in the area. Keep up with your videos, I enjoy them a lot!.
The kind of notification you only find acceptable when it's from PBS Eons.
I just wanted to let you guys know, I've been having a lot of anxiety attacks and I'm working on getting in to a doctor for it, but anytime I'm having a full blown attack and I'm alone I turn to your videos. You guys have really soothing voices and help distract me and ground me. Plus all the information is incredible. But I really wanted to thank you for all you guys do. I've probably watched every single one of your videos at least twice if not more
Never realized how much I love learning about the era before humans. I'm starting to look on the internet for trilobite fossils because of you guys
If there's a gem and mineral show near you they'll probably have some trilobites or ammonites. Plus the folks there are almost always willing to talk to a fellow fossil enthusiast.
I was expecting something to be discussed about their diet and how they probably had explosive diarrhea or something horrible like that. It ended up being a much crappier way to die. I'm glad we're not giant animals.
Welcome to the team, Michelle! You're great! Would you have ever guessed your first appearance on the channel would involve you saying poop so much? 😂
Dude for real 💯🤣 and welcome though
Cheers! It’s a great intro for this channel 😂😂😂. She has a really nice speaking style!
Sid went out in the most embarassing way
Fascinating. Disgusting, but fascinating
On a related note, are there other known fossilized latrine sites like this? Not only for the sake of latrine deposits.. I'm wondering if there's been anything like the guano in bat caves or the poop from nesting penguins in the fossil record.
Fossilized guano! What a cool idea!!
oohh pterasaur guano (if they produced it...)!!?!?
Red guano is the fossilized, "aged", version of guano, and coprolite mining is actually a thing. If we are looking at sites with more scientific attention, again sloth is quite the culprit. There are caves literally filled with Nothrotheriops dung in the southwest US, giving us a pretty good idea of their diet
I don't think they're quite fossilized, but Rock Hyrax latrines have been used for studying the history of climate change in Africa over the last 50,000-ish years.
SciShow did a video on it last year. th-cam.com/video/v360hZbwnPs/w-d-xo.html
Hyraceum is the petrified and rock-like excrement composed of both urine and feces excreted by the Cape hyrax
@@TragoudistrosMPH that's a good point: were caves an unexploited niche before birds since pterosaurs couldn't hang?
Eons team gotta tell you, when you do a show together with many hosts
Gets me excited, and it feels serious beautiful
Welcome to Eons Michelle!
Yesss
"Did these giant sloths poop themselves to death?"
To quote a certain youtube channel "Intriguing, but highly disturbing".
lol, whats that quote from
@@michaelwerkov3438 Gamerpoop
Woohoo!!! Yeah I missed you guys!!
💖Welcome @Michelle Barboza-Ramirez!💖
“We’re bringing in all Eons hosts to solve this mystery.”
Holy crap.
Wait.
they forgot John Green
Sloths are terrifying animals.
I will never forget the Sloth victim in Se7en
... ... trapped in a room, unable to go anywhere for months... 😬
I love that PBS digital studio titles often sound like click bait but they always live up to it, because the universe is really that weird
Welcome aboard Michelle!
Just a quick question: So, when exactly did Hank stop hosting on this channel? I feel it's been a while now...
He probably just has too much going on! He’s involved in sooooo many science channels AND I think he’s tiktok’s uncle now? You can’t click on a biology video without finding his name in the credits. Poor guy probably doesn’t have time to poop. I hope he still pops up occasionally!
He's been hosting on the PBS Bizarre Beasts channel.
Ever since he went on producing Content Cop.
It was a couple years ago, I'd say something around 2019. So yeah it's refreshing to have a new host in the crew and the idea to do a 3 host episode to introduce the newcomer is pretty clever.
All in all : Welcome Michelle :)
Pretty sure Hank is spread thin between projects and just managing everything. He's the executive producer on this video for example.
"Dead by poop hypothesis" is now my favorite hypothesis.
So that’s what happened to Sid.
Every channel should return from hiatus with a poop video.
I really enjoyed all three hosts in one video!
This opens up the possibilities of a group of prehistoric cats that died from their own poop, until they evolved to bury their poop
That is one nasty way to go out.😕
1. Come to existence
2. Poop aggressively
3. Dies
What a legend
What is it with sloths and dangerous pooping 😂
CSI: Paleontology
GIL: How do you think they died?
Horatio: Slowly...very slowly 🦥
I've been waiting for your next video for so long! Can't wait to watch this
The best part about this click-bait title is that it's 100% accurate!
Glad to see the PBS Eons team growing! Looking forward to even more bizarre discoveries!
New girl debut starts strong with a death by poop hypothesis.
Michelle is actually non-binary and goes by they/them pronouns, not a girl
@TRICYCLØPLØTS pronouns are gender, not sexuality
Him: "...sloths go solo or "HANG SOLO."
~badoop pa~
Me: grooooooan~so bad it's funny 🤣🤣
Very articulate presenters. Presumably animals normally realise when a watering hole is no longer functioning as a survival refuge and set off to try and reach a better one, but perhaps slow moving sloths knew they would not have stood a chance and died of thirst on the way, so their only chance was to stay put and wait for rain.
It's called deathication
I wonder what the prompts that PBS gave their illustrators for this video were like: Giant sloths at watering hole, dead giant sloths at watering hole surrounded by poop. Lol
Another awesome video, thanks guys!
I'd love to see a video on why ceratopsian dinosaurs have such a diverse range of head ornamentations. Also another more quirky suggestion would have to be how the zebra got it's stripes :)
Really enjoyed having the contributions of 3 great hosts! Thank you!
It's always interesting how living animals can help provide information about how extinct animals would have lived, even if they aren't related, just by occupying a similar niche.
Greetings from Ecuador! Glad to see there is real research on Science and Paleontology around :) Local media never publishes (they don't even know, I bet...)
this channel never stops getting better
It is always so neat to see, to SEE, a specific event that happened to temporally specific individuals rather than a longer trend as happened to generations of lifeforms.
Michelle has a wonderful voice! Can't wait for more content!
Cool pants, too!
I sometimes have such giant poops and subsequent gastroemptiness that I wonder if I accidentally pooped my offals out, so I assumed the title meant that these creatures literally shat out their innards to death.
I've been watching you on TikTok for a while and absolutely forgot Michelle is considered new lol
What happened to Hank? When did he leave the program?
@@EyeOfEld probably went on to do other projects, as he usually does.
@@yuvalne Thanks.
@@EyeOfEld Hank's doing SciShow and SciShow Space and Bizarre Beasts and who knows what else. And he's a New York Times bestselling author. And of course there are the Vlogbrothers and the Project for Awesome and Complexly LLC, the video production company he co-founded. So I'd guess his schedule is kinda crammed to the brim.
I love this channel. Such a perfectly paced, well written episode again, and this wasn't even the best one by far. Im not even that into biology but man Eons is maybe the best yt channel I've ever seen.
Its a got damn delight to watch every time.
A big hello to Michelle! Always nice to see some new faces in your videos.
And also please always keep Blake. I love his adorable dad jokes.
Welcome back to my favourite educational channel! And welcome Michelle!
So those rhinos should have been scared if Sid
I love how all of you contributed to this group project
Whatever the proponents of Hypothesis 2 think caused that is now my sleep paralysis demon
Congrats to the artist @8:19 who had to portray sloths pooping themselves to death
This is frickin MIND BLOWING, way to make one of my favorite animal groups even more ridiculous!!
Sloth 1: (sniff sniff). Dudes! We should like move away from all this poop on the ground, or something, yeah?
Sloth 2: Yeah sure, Bro, but how about later, like after nap time?
Sloth 1: Yeah dude. I like naps.
we're finally back!!! \o/ Welcome Michelle! And, as always, Steve!!!!!!!!!!
"And yes, that is gross and weird."
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that
1) Michelle is great, caught the accurate Ecuador pronunciation, her voice is great for narration. 2) still love Blake being the dork
*All 3 Eons hosts gets brought together*
Now this is the most ambitious crossover event ever.
This is not the video I was expecting...
I am amazed by the narration skills of all the three narrators. Hats off guys, you magically convert words on such complex topics so effortlessly into easy to understand language.
So I was sort-of correct in my initial guess: that they ate or drank something that gave them acute dysentery, or a similar disease. I did NOT expect the contaminant to be their own poop, though - figured the piles of poop were the symptom, not the cause. Also interesting to hear modern-day critters can make the same mistake. (Welcome, Michelle! Heck of an introduction, and heck of a start for the new season: CoproDoom.)
the power level it took to cover this topic required all 3 hosts to be available
I MISSED YOU!! I've been waiting patiently (thats a lie, I wasn't patient at all lol) for a new episode and this is certainly a great return video! Welcome Michelle to the team and I can't wait to see you in future videos
I really love this mystery solving format. gj
So if Giant Ground Sloth's had just gotten out of the pool to poop, would they still exist today?
Well, you see what people did to every species of megafauna except moose and bison in North America.
The fauna and the climate, has changed since they disappeared. They probably wouldn't be able to find enough food to survive today.
Next time someone says they feel like sh*t, tell them how much you love them and will keep their memory alive-no matter how embarrassing the autopsy.
"How did dinosaurs survive without credit cards?"
They didn't.
Birds: Quit telling everyone I'm DEAD!!!
They actually did.
Absolutely stoked you guys are back
What happened to Hank? He was a host too right?
I was just wondering the same thing.
Hank is still around! He stepped away from hosting Eons a couple years ago to focus on other projects (including the incredible shows Bizarre Beasts and Journey to the Microcosmos) but he's still executive producer/our boss!
@@eons I think 1 thing that you may have not considered is poisoning of the water by say toxic cyanobacteria. The poop could easily cause an algae bloom and contaminate the water and then kill everything off, then after the bloom died back the water would be good enough to drink again. So that would possibly explain why there's mainly sloths there.
Love the new format of having numerous hosts
I still miss Steve
Poor guy pooped himself to death. Tragic.
There is a difference between "Pooping yourself to death" and "Dying from wallowing in Poop". if they pooped themselves to death it would be like how humans die of Dysentery. In this case it wasn't the act of pooping that caused the death, but contaminating the surroundings with it that did. So it's more like they bathed themselves to death in poop.
More please 😁( I just love this channel so much)
Yay!! Eons is back! I missed you guys!
oh my god the title just made me burst out LAUGHING AHAAHA
I like how the tone of this video starts to take on a kind of sympathetic pleading, like an intervention--like they're trying to help the sloths face their own inability to do anything about the fact that they keep pooping. "Hey, you've gotta face facts, Buddy. We can all see the signs. You pooped yourself to death."
Always nervous when new hosts are introduced, but Michelle seems great already! 👍
They found a giant sloth skeleton in the cave in my city (benson AZ).
Absolutely amazing. I don't think we understand much about these creatures.
They seem to be found in caves often, and they look like giant gophers.
Michelle has everything needed to present Eons: good delivery, clear understanding and perfectly timed puns.
First things first: I like your new way of integrating more than one host in the same subject without cutting the flow, it was really really nice : 3
new host yay! they're great!
Michelle is great! Excellent cadence and captivating presenter. Glad to see the team expanding!