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eppur_se_muova

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11. Weird coincidence -- I was just flipping through Prothero's "Princeton Field Guide" to refresh my memory on some ...

Reply to cab67 (Original post)

Sun Mar 8, 2026, 09:21 PM

Mar 8

obscure points. And here is one !

I was just reminding myself that there are two living orders of sloths -- the "two-toed" and "three-toed" -- and that they're not really that closely related to each other. Strange are the ways of evolution.

Lots of weird critters that appeared, evolved for a while, and died out, without leaving much change -- and no descendants.

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useless trivia. [View all] cab67 Mar 8 OP

It could make an interesting sentence ... dweller Mar 8 #1

Best wishes on your lecture. GreenWave Mar 8 #2

That's what I was thinking wendyb-NC Mar 8 #3

Useless has a flavor all it's own Buzz cook Mar 8 #4

"skin beast" sounds like what's on Trump's neck. dameatball Mar 8 #5

Don't make me release the flying Lemurs mercuryblues Mar 8 #6

or the dogs. or the bees. cab67 Mar 8 #9

Very cool canetoad Mar 8 #7

flying foxes fly perfectly well. cab67 Mar 8 #8

There ya go! canetoad Mar 8 #10

Yet more useless trivia: cab67 Mar 10 #14

Weird coincidence -- I was just flipping through Prothero's "Princeton Field Guide" to refresh my memory on some ... eppur_se_muova Mar 8 #11

The living tree sloths arose independently from different ground-sloth ancestors. cab67 Mar 9 #12

That's what I remembered. It's just sort of fascinatingly weird. eppur_se_muova Mar 9 #13

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