Patagonia - 'The land of the giant Big feet

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Posted by Fantasilandia

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Many explorers throughout the centuries, including the great Ferdinand Magellan, visited the region in South America now known as Patagonia and reported sighting giants. From these accounts we get the name "Patagonia"--Land of the Big Feet. But what exactly did these explorers see? Now, some experts suggest that the giant, upright-walking ground sloth, once widespread throughout Patagonia, could have been the source of these stories. Josh Bernstein accompanies paleontologists, naturalists, and crypto-zoologists on a search to determine whether the ground sloth could have lived into the era of human habitation. He treks across the glaciers of Patagonia, descends deep in the mountain caves, accompanies a band of gauchos on horseback, and joins a modern-day paleontology dig to try to discover evidence that the ground sloth still exists today.

Yeti, Bigfoot, and Sasquatch: "I imagine that ever since stories were first told around a campfire, people liked to talk about giants. Even today, our world has icons of hugeness, from the Biblical Goliath to the lumberjack Paul Bunyan to even the Jolly Green Giant. But what makes the giant stories of Patagonia a bit different is that the people there seem to think they have real physical proof to support these legends and tales. So it's off to Patagonia I go in search of, well, we'll see."

Patagonia: "For many people in America, Patagonia is a clothing company. Well, that's true. Actually, I'm a big supporter of the company Patagonia, their environmental message and their clothing