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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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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Glyptodon (section Confusion with Megatherium)
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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Megatherium, discovered in Argentina (mistakenly referred to as Paraguay), Jefferson revised his interpretation and compared Megalonyx to Megatherium...
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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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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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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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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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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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"mastodon", and that a large skeleton dug up in present-day Argentina was of Megatherium, a giant, prehistoric ground sloth. He also established two ungulate...
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List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters (redirect from Megatherium (Dungeons & Dragons))
(1995) (White Rhinoceros as Wooly Rhinoceros) Axebeak, Baluchitherium, Megatherium, Phororacos, White Rhinoceros, Titanothere Revenant Monstrous Manual...
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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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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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Cuvieronius and 18 other species of vertebrates including giant tortoises, Megatherium, Glyptotherium, Toxodon, extinct horses, paleo-llamas. The site stands...
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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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Promegatherium ("before Megatherium") is a genus of prehistoric xenarthrans that lived in Argentina, during the Late Miocene. This genus is regarded as...
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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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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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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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them back the way they'd come), including bones from the Pterodactylus, Megatherium, Deinotherium, Glyptodon, a mastodon, and the preserved body of a prehistoric...
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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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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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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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Megatherium fossil illustrated in Parkinson's Organic Remains of a Former World...
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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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for young scientists from 1857 to 1866, who formed a group called the Megatherium Club. The Smithsonian played a critical role as the US partner institution...
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in this region—such as the armadillo Eutatus, the giant ground sloth Megatherium, and the dog Dusicyon avus—the Pampas may have been a refuge zone provided...
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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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to its outflow into the Río de la Plata north of the city. The first Megatherium fossil was found here in 1789. Wikimedia Commons has media related to...
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