Large sloth lemur
Extinct circa 1500 CE • Madagascar
"The sloth lemur Babakotia was a really bizarre species . . . While modern sloths use their claws to hang upside down, instead the Babakotia's fingers had become elongated. The bones themselves were curved to become these rigid hooks so that the lemurs wouldn't have been able to use their hands for anything else . . . They were really incredible animals."
- Julian Hume, The National History Museum, London
Josh Davis, "Only known drawing of extinct giant sloth lemur found in cave," The Natural History Museum, London, June 28, 2020.
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