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Prehistoric ground sloths first appeared around 35 million years ago.
Some ground sloths, like the megalonychid, were cat-sized, but many were massive.
In fact, we might not have avocados today if not for the giant sloths.
Smaller animals couldn't swallow the avocado's huge seed, but the sloths could, and they spread avocado trees far and wide.
Ground sloths flourished for millions of years, but around 10,000 years ago, they started disappearing along with the Western Hemisphere's other giant mammals.
Researchers think that ground sloths could have been pushed out by an oncoming ice age, or competition with other species, maybe humans, who arrived in the region around the time most of the sloths went extinct.
Some of the smaller sloths did survive and migrated to the treetops.
But sloths, especially three-toed sloths, rely on leaves almost exclusively.
Sloths have a multi-chambered stomach that takes up a third of their body, and depending on the species, they can spend five to seven days, or even weeks, processing a meal.
One way sloths do this is, of course, by not moving very much.
When sloths do move, it's not very fast.
This unhurried approach to life means that sloths don't need very much muscle.
Sloths also use less energy to keep themselves warm because their body temperature can fluctuate by about five degrees Celsius, less than a cold-blooded reptile, but more than most mammals.
Three-toed sloths have the slowest metabolism of any mammal.
The giant panda is second slowest, and two-toed sloths come in third.
Moving slowly has allowed sloths to thrive in their treetop habitat.
But it's also made the sloths themselves a great habitat for other organisms, including algae, which provides a little extra camouflage, and maybe even a snack.
Sloths may not be giant anymore, but that doesn't make them any less remarkable.
But sloths are massively misunderstood.
But I mean, on the plus side, he has given the sloth a remarkably humanlike face, and sloths do have remarkably humanlike faces.
But then, sloths do bear an uncanny resemblance to the The Beatles.
But like The Beatles, sloths are also extremely successful.
That means that without sloths, there might be no avocado on toast today, leaving hipsters everywhere totally bereft at breakfast.
You've got your Bradypus three-toed sloths, they're the ones with the Beatles haircuts and the Mona Lisa smiles.
Then, there are the two-toed sloths.
There was a survey that was done in the 1970s in a Panamanian tropical forest that found that sloths were the most numerically abundant large animal.
Now, that's an awful lot of sloths and suggests they're doing something very right indeed.
So, sloths aren't lazy.
And of course, leaves have little calorific value, so sloths have evolved to spend as little energy as possible.
The Bradypus, three-toed sloths, they've got more neck bones than any other mammal, even a giraffe.