Photos show giant sloth fossils, not giant human bones

The claim: Photos show giant human bones

A Facebook post features several pictures of large bones arranged in a way that resembles a human skeleton. People are observing the bones in some of the photos.

“The remains of GIANTS were discovered in the small Equadorian (sic) village of Changaimina, 7m in height,” reads the caption of the March 29 post (direct link, archive link). “Connected to an ancient human race exceeding 12m. Once (sic) such discovery was by a local priest born in 1912. He had kept the skeletal remains in his possession until his death in 1999.”

The post was shared dozens of times. A version of it circulating on Instagram garnered more than 1,000 likes before it was deleted.

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The photos show the fossilized remains of an extinct species of giant ground sloth, according to the museum that houses the bones.

Giant sloth bones on display at Ecuadorian museum 

The skeleton seen in the post is housed in an Ecuadorian museum called Museo Paleontológico Megaterio. The museum’s website features a picture of the bones.

A translation of the text on the website says the remains belong to the giant ground…