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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

And what happened to the giant sloths?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Earth warms up from ice age. Big sloth too fuzzy. Loses fuzz and tries to climb tree. Big sloth too big. Small big sloth gets smaller, climbs tree.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Lol I know this is a joke but they died out, tree sloths existed back then too and are a totally separate group of animals. They didn’t evolve from the animals that dug this tunnel. They do share a common ancestor millions of years ago but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

but this is like saying saber tooth cats evolved into house cats.

I'm pretty sure my house cat believes this is true, evidence to the contrary be damned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

but we all came from the same common ancestor which was the naked nucleic acid/peptide chain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

But where does Scrat figure in this?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

We ate them 😔

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Miniaturisation and the march of progress

How do you think we got tardigrades

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

We domesticated them and made purse sloths.