TrueAuthority.com's "Quest for the Giant Sloth": An Analysis, part II: Expedition, the Sloth, and DNA Evidence

Preserved Shasta ground sloth dung.
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This post is a continuation of a previous entry.

Now, we'll move on to examining the main attraction, is it were: the first actual link on the page (I wanted to get the minor links out of the way in that first post), "The Expedition".

TrueAuthority.com's "Quest for the Giant Sloth": An Analysis, part I: Photography, External Links and John Lewis

The DNA code from the dung. Perhaps.
Image credit TrueAuthority.com.

Late last week, I made a post on a study which claimed to have found DNA evidence of the Mapinguary. Here, I hope to go into the study in far greater detail, and analyse the DNA result. The basic story is that a man named John Lewis went to South America, found a big pile of dung, had it tested, and found it to be a match for a prehistoric ground sloth. In 2001. After that, nothing else happened, but he did claim that he'd go back to the Amazon shortly after the DNA testing was done.

TrueAuthority.com's "Quest for the Giant Sloth"

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TrueAuthority.com is a hardcore creationist website, with an entire portion dedicated to trying (and failing) to debunk evolution. However, it also has a cryptozoology portion (the third and final topic is dinosaurs). One article in this section is about the Mapinguary.