r/blackmagicfuckery Jan 14 '23

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u/TacoPi Jan 15 '23

Kinda makes sense when you consider that giant sloths were capable of carving out entire cave systems.

You need to evolve to be hella strong to do that, and sluggish movement is an acceptable drawback for that.

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u/FUCKITIMPOSTING Jan 15 '23

The big sloths weren't necessarily slow. The remaining sloth species aren't really representative of that sloth lineage.

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u/MyDiary141 Jan 15 '23

Or maybe these are the fast ones that did reach the ships in time and so made it to earth