Megatherium (/mɛɡəˈθɪəriəm/ meg-ə-THEER-ee-əm; from Greek méga (μέγα) 'great' + theríon (θηρίον) 'beast') is an extinct genus of ground sloths endemic...

about 6 metres (20 ft) long, slightly larger than its close relative Megatherium. Eremotherium was widespread in tropical and subtropical lowlands and...

from Uruguay, though many were incorrectly referred to the ground sloth Megatherium by early paleontologists. The type species, G. clavipes, was described...

size with the largest, belonging to genera Lestodon, Eremotherium and Megatherium, being around the size of elephants. Ground sloths represent a paraphyletic...

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...

The Paleontological Museum Megatherium (Spanish: Museo Paleontológico Megaterio) is a museum in the province of Santa Elena in Ecuador, located in the...

many species of ground sloths ranging up to the size of elephants (like Megatherium) inhabited both North and South America during the Pleistocene Epoch...

million years ago, in South America. The group includes the heavily built Megatherium (given its name 'great beast' by Georges Cuvier) and Eremotherium. An...

Megatherium, discovered in Argentina (mistakenly referred to as Paraguay), Jefferson revised his interpretation and compared Megalonyx to Megatherium...

called it B. megatherium assuming the name was incorrectly spelled. This trend continues as many scientists still use the name B. megatherium, sowing confusion...

(1995) (White Rhinoceros as Wooly Rhinoceros) Axebeak, Baluchitherium, Megatherium, Phororacos, White Rhinoceros, Titanothere Revenant Monstrous Manual...

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...

zoology at George Washington University. He was also a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Fellow members...

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...

Tomegatherion, a fictional character in the video game Body Harvest Megatherium, an extinct genus of ground sloths Therion (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

horses, and woolly rhinoceros Pleistocene of South America, including Megatherium and two Glyptodon The evolution of anatomically modern humans took place...

by some biologists to have evolved as protection against the extinct Megatherium Giant Ground Sloth.[citation needed] (in Portuguese) Astrocaryum aculeatissimum...

The State University Santa Elena Peninsula (Spanish: Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, - literal translation: State University Santa Elena...

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...

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...

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...

inhabitants of the Pampas include the giant elephant-sized ground sloth Megatherium americanum, along side the smaller (though still large) ground sloths...

the Americas contained later mammals like the megatheriid ground sloth Megatherium and the mammutid proboscidean Mammut (later known informally as a "mastodon")...

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...

Megatherium fossil illustrated in Parkinson's Organic Remains of a Former World...

concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct, including the megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk, cave bear, cave lion, and the last of...

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...

material from these times. These groups co-existed with megafauna like megatherium, glyptodonts, and toxodonts. It is not known how many people lived in...

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...

quite similarly to those of the extinct giant ground sloths (such as Megatherium), their giant claws and ‘hands’ being a formidable defense against predators...