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Florida Museum of Natural History

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Caption

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species.

Credit

Illustration by Diego Barletta

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