Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth tooth claw cast replica

Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth tooth claw cast replicaEremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth tooth cast replica Megatherium (pronounced MEG ah THEER ee um)(now known as Eremotherium) was a huge, bulky, slow moving mammal that lived during the Pleistocene epoch in South America. It went extinct about 11,000 years ago. This ice age mammal was the largest of the ground sloths; Megatherium's name means "great beast." Megatherium was named by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1856; the first

and that due to their precise conformity to adaptations needed for the bipedal locomotion of such a large animal

Shannon Lee

"If a predator grabbed hold of one of these reptiles

Left to right measurements 7"

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their limbs were very long and would have dwarfed both the modern Kodiak bear as well as the Pleistocene European cave bear

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and a series of science fiction novels called TekWar

it is best known for the high neural spines on many of its vertebrae

These prints come from the same site

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3 – 5 ft