When evolution just gives up, part 3
May 14, 2016
Seriously, Megatherium americanum, do you even lift?
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Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 
May 15, 2016 at 4:27 am
The skull even looks like it has fatty jowls!
…OMG I KNOW WHAT THIS REMINDS ME OF!
May 15, 2016 at 11:04 am
I am offended, because sloths rule.
May 15, 2016 at 6:32 pm
Just think of the sheer tonnage of adorable cuteness when those things were shuffling around
May 15, 2016 at 7:57 pm
Yeah, but you think every group of tetrapods rules.
May 15, 2016 at 9:39 pm
Yes it probably kept fit by lifting Glyptodonts.
Oh and an aside for Darren, what’s wrong with the commenting system over at Tetrapod Zoology; it won’t let anyone log in to comment.
LeeB.
May 16, 2016 at 3:06 pm
LeeB, I E-mailed Darren, he replied to say it is not just TET. Zoo commenting that is screwed but all of Scientific American commenting-a really good upgrade!
May 16, 2016 at 3:15 pm
I’m partly offended too because I love sloths, but I cannot avoid falling into the viewpoint of the offenders too. In any case it is amazing to me how such apparenty ill-locomoting (on the ground), dentally-reduced creatures thrived in the American Neogene surrounded by so much apparently fitter cursorial mammals.
May 16, 2016 at 3:20 pm
Which, given how terrible the SciAm commenting has always been, is really saying something!
May 16, 2016 at 11:51 pm
AndrewD,
thanks for finding that out.
So now one of the blogs that had the most interesting comments and commentators can’t be commented on.
Brilliant!
I am sure the Hittites would have had some interesting curses that would have been directly applicable to the fools that caused this to happen.
Something along the lines of “may the tendons of their hands break as they reach out to grasp success”.
Just like queen Victoria I am not amused.
LeeB.
May 19, 2016 at 3:16 pm
“Do you even lift?” Great caption!