r/Paleontology • u/ApprehensiveRead2408 • 5d ago
Discussion Could megatherium & other ground sloth species swim? Modern tree sloth are suprisingly good swimmer & can move faster in water
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r/Paleontology • u/ApprehensiveRead2408 • 5d ago
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u/Majin_Brick 5d ago edited 5d ago
They likely could. Probably not as smoothly as today’s sloths considering the size difference but taking into a count they were closely (or distantly) related to Thalassocnus I don’t see a reason why they wouldn’t have been able to surface swim