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    Megatherium (/mɛɡəˈθɪəriəm/ meg-ə-THEER-ee-əm; from Greek méga (μέγα) 'great' + theríon (θηρίον) 'beast') is an extinct genus of ground sloths endemic...
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    about 6 metres (20 ft) long, slightly larger than its close relative Megatherium. Eremotherium was widespread in tropical and subtropical lowlands and...
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    from Uruguay, though many were incorrectly referred to the ground sloth Megatherium by early paleontologists. The type species, G. clavipes, was described...
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    size with the largest, belonging to genera Lestodon, Eremotherium and Megatherium, being around the size of elephants. Ground sloths represent a paraphyletic...
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    The Megatherium Club was a group of Washington, D.C.–based scientists who were attracted to that city by the Smithsonian Institution's rapidly growing...
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  • The Paleontological Museum Megatherium (Spanish: Museo Paleontológico Megaterio) is a museum in the province of Santa Elena in Ecuador, located in the...
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    million years ago, in South America. The group includes the heavily built Megatherium (given its name 'great beast' by Georges Cuvier) and Eremotherium. An...
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    many species of ground sloths ranging up to the size of elephants (like Megatherium) inhabited both North and South America during the Pleistocene Epoch...
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    Megatherium, discovered in Argentina (mistakenly referred to as Paraguay), Jefferson revised his interpretation and compared Megalonyx to Megatherium...
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  • (1995) (White Rhinoceros as Wooly Rhinoceros) Axebeak, Baluchitherium, Megatherium, Phororacos, White Rhinoceros, Titanothere Revenant Monstrous Manual...
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  • Thumbnail for Priestia megaterium
    called it B. megatherium assuming the name was incorrectly spelled. This trend continues as many scientists still use the name B. megatherium, sowing confusion...
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    by some biologists to have evolved as protection against the extinct Megatherium Giant Ground Sloth.[citation needed] (in Portuguese) Astrocaryum aculeatissimum...
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    present-day Argentina was of a giant, prehistoric ground sloth, which he named Megatherium. He also established two ungulate genera from the Paris Basin named Palaeotherium...
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    zoology at George Washington University. He was also a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Fellow members...
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    on local armadillos. From a jaw and tooth he identified the gigantic Megatherium, then from Cuvier's description thought the armour was from this animal...
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  • Tomegatherion, a fictional character in the video game Body Harvest Megatherium, an extinct genus of ground sloths Therion (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    Megatherium fossil illustrated in Parkinson's Organic Remains of a Former World...
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    inhabitants of the Pampas include the giant elephant-sized ground sloth Megatherium americanum, along side the smaller (though still large) ground sloths...
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    The State University Santa Elena Peninsula (Spanish: Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, - literal translation: State University Santa Elena...
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    of the Megatherium" but could only extract a few broken fragments. The next day, he visited a nearby house and bought "a head of a Megatherium which must...
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    discovery of a well-preserved fossilized skull of the giant ground sloth Megatherium near San Eduardo del Mar, Province of Buenos Aires. According to paleontologists...
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    horses, and woolly rhinoceros Pleistocene of South America, including Megatherium and two Glyptodon The evolution of anatomically modern humans took place...
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    bear-sized xenarthran was related to the much larger, and far more famous Megatherium, although it has recently been placed in a different family, Nothrotheriidae...
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    the Americas contained later mammals like the megatheriid ground sloth Megatherium and the mammutid proboscidean Mammut (later known informally as a "mastodon")...
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    of a horse, a rhinoceros, a camel, and a hippopotamus), a mastodon, a Megatherium, and a Protopithecus while a Pterodactylus flies in the sky. While at...
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    material from these times. These groups co-existed with megafauna like megatherium, glyptodonts, and toxodonts. It is not known how many people lived in...
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  • concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct, including the megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk, cave bear, cave lion, and the last of...
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    Paleocene –Recent, 60–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Clockwise from upper leff: Megatherium, giant anteater, two-toed sloth, nine-banded armadillo. Scientific classification...
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    it one of the largest known ground sloths, alongside the megatheres Megatherium and Eremotherium. The skull of Lestodon armatus has a very wide muzzle...
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    ISBN 978-0-8122-4736-7. Pimentel, Juan (2017). The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History. p. 88. "The Refusal of Time". Harvard Magazine...
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