When Sloths Took Over The Ocean

We are all familiar with sloth as slow moving animals. Some of us might be familiar with the giant sloths which used to roam our lands. However, there is an interesting genus that used to be semi-aquatic! Let's get into it
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:25 Discovery & Species
1:09 Classification Process
2:27 Part Terrestrial?
3:05 Environment
3:24 Size
4:13 Limbs
5:21 Skull
6:07 Tail
6:24 Bone Density
6:57 Diet
7:32 Competition
8:50 Predation
10:03 Extinction
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[@Liam-lx8xb]

Fun fact: Modern sloths are also surprisingly good swimmers(better than me honestly).

[@TheOverseerDebates]

Funny how they seem to move better in water than on the ground or trees

[@Liam-lx8xb]

@@TheOverseerDebates Yep. Atleast they aren't koalas.

[@enon8116]

@@TheOverseerDebatesseems like they should adapt to an aquatic lifestyle

[@Liam-lx8xb]

@@TheOverseerDebates They can also hold their breath longer than actual aquatic mammals like dolphin.

[@mhdfrb9971]

@@Liam-lx8xb thanks to their ability to slow down their heart rates

[@mhdfrb9971]

Mammalian marine iguana basically

[@TheOverseerDebates]

Pretty much

[@joshc441]

The sloth family is pretty amazing. Going from being hunted by whales to saber tooth’s to harpy eagles.

[@Sharktoz]

From a shark standpoint, if megalodons did feed on these sloths, it would probably be sub-adults who mainly fed on them. Though I imagine an adult wouldn't pass one up as a snack. Personally didn't know a lot of things you covered in this video. Well done my friend.

[@KylerBrazda-we9kb]

This is why the sloths could have stayed around and become super well adapted if not for the great change in weather

[@Eah_rufuusi]

If it weren't for the union with North America, the animals would have destroyed The South American fauna, before we had terror birds dominating here, then came the big cats

[@kilianteni7884]

Miocene is peak

[@TheOverseerDebates]

Highkey underrated

[@gojitsar7505]

W comment

[@uhh.....911]

I dont like how people keep putting smilodon in documentaries and say that its interesting , while neogene and paleogene animals are legit triassic level weirdness yet theyre almost never included

[@TikiRainbows]

I didnt know a sloth could go in the water, I thought it would drown. But it's an agile swimmer it appears. I like how it's always been lazy in both environments lol

[@HidalinaB]

This question may not relate to this topic but my 15 year old has a question
Ask edge that I have two questions 1. Is how thick and strong is a triceratops head and horn, did they really use them for defense and which triceratops species has the best offense and defense when it comes to fighting if there bad at defense then which one has better fighting abilities and greatest weaponry to fight the T. rex and other dinosaurs. 2.Ask him this to is this really a different species of ceratopsian dinosaur or is just a triceratops or it is a triceratops but a different species of one

[@maozilla9149]

nice video

[@TheOverseerDebates]

Thanks!

[@maozilla9149]

@@TheOverseerDebates your welcome

[@userrr-xivv]

banger creature

[@NaniFatimana]

Subscribed

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Cheers!

[@robertremedios8734]

Love the video. I wonder if it could still live somewhere in unexplored South America

[@Intrusion498]

Ostriches,cows,camels,elephants,bats,hyenas and jaguars can swim so there’s one shark that saw a camel