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Sloths 🦥 (mander.xyz)

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

And what happened to the giant sloths?

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

We domesticated them and made purse sloths.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Miniaturisation and the march of progress

How do you think we got tardigrades

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

We ate them 😔

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 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] 2 points 4 months ago

But where does Scrat figure in this?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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] 4 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 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.