Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth skull Alamosaurus The fossil is of a

The fossil is of a juvenile female

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it did not survive past the Miocene Platybelodon was very similar to Amebelodon

Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth skull Alamosaurus The fossil is of aMegatherium (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 Megatherium fossil was found in Brazil in 1789. Anatomy: Megatherium had peg