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Megatherium
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Megatherium was a giant ground sloth. That from the late
Pliocene epoch to the early Holocene, between about 2 million
and 8,000 years ago. It is believed to have gone extinct
as a result of hunting by humans.
Megatherium weighed around 5 tons,
and was 20 feet (6 meters) tall when standing on its hind limbs.
It is believed to have stood on its hind legs, using its tail
for support as a tripod, and used its front limbs to pull down
branches from which it would have eaten leaves. It was probably
also equpped with a long tongue.
Megatherium probably most ate leaves, but may also have hunted
or scavenged meat as well - there is for eaxmple, some
suggestion that it could have used its claws as daggers.
One possibility is that Megatherium could have scavenged
kills made by
Smilodon.
Another possibility is that Megatherium may have hunted
Glyptodonts
- a number of fossils of
Glyptodonts
have been showing the creature apparently dying on its back, and
the only creature in the habitat that could have flipped over a
Glyptodont,
is Megatherium.
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Megatherium was a giant ground sloth that lived between 2 million and 8,000 years ago

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By William Brown Hodgson
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By William Brown Hodgson
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By Richard Owen
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Memoir On The Megatherium, Or Giant Ground-Sloth Of America (Megatherium Americanum, Cuvier)
Richard Owen
Williams and Norgate, 1861
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By William Clift
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Notice On The Megatherium Brought From Buenos Ayres By Woodbine Parish...
William Clift, Sir Woodbine Parish
Printed by R. Taylor, 1835
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By William C. Sturgis
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A Soil Bacillus Of The Type Of De Bary's B. Megatherium
William C. Sturgis
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| Pleistocene Extinctions, including: Diprotodon, Homo Habilis, Mammoth, Paranthropus, Megatherium, Machairodus, Dinofelis, Smilodon, Homotherium, Cave ... Heidelbergensis, Meganthropus, Thylacoleo |
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More info: The Quaternary period saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly larger species, many of which occurred during the transition to the Holocene epoch in what is termed the Holocene extinction. Among the main causes hypothesized by paleontologists are natural climate change and overkill by humans, who appeared during this epoch. A variant of this last possibility is the second-order predation hypothesis, which focuses more on the indirect damage caused by overcompetition with nonhuman predators. The spread of disease is also discussed as a possible reason. |
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