And the same was true for countless other animals, including the extinct giant sloth (on the left; compared with a living South American tree sloth on the right). Whatís more, the older the fossils were, the less they resembled animals that were still living.
(This bothered some people: Why would God create something, only to let it vanish forever? But thatís another story. . .)
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