South America had among the most unusual fauna on the planet, dominated by marsupials, including large carnivorous marsupials, xenarthrans (armadillos, anteaters, and sloths, including the elephant-sized Megatherium), and a unique and diverse group of native ungulates, most of which went extinct w...
The best foods for the deadon is cooked prime or mutton, with the absolute best food to recover food drain being any type of kibble. Including dodo kibble. Up to you to put in the effort to build a dodo farm, let alone wait the two-three weeks to gather the hundreds of needed eggs...
Eutatus leg bones, from a large fossil armadillo; Argentina. Really odd morphology; Xenarthrans are so cool. Giant ground sloth (Megatherium) foot; ridiculously weird. Giant ground sloth hand is full of WTF. Metriorhynchus sea-crocodile from the Cretaceous: hind end. Odobenocetops one-tusked...
Meeting the dietary needs of an herbivore can be challenging, since these animals often require a high volume of food because plant material is difficult to digest. Some herbivores also have extremely specific diets, derived from the environments that they evolved in; koalas, for example, will so...
evolved in isolation around 80 million years ago when South America was still an island. They were once a hugely successful group that included a giant ground sloth,Megatherium, the size of an Asian elephant. This majestic creature was probably hunted to extinction by man following the last ice...
Megatherium. Yeah! Megatherium hindlegs fascinate me. Well-heeled. Tamandua duo. Silky anteater; wonderful. Armadillos. Anteaters round out a fab display on Xenarthra. The UMZC has everything from aardvarks to zebus. Here, conceptualized with other Afrotheria. Golden moles: the more I read ...
Thankfully, it's not all claws and giant fangs. The woolly mammoth is still there, and so is the glypodont, which looks like a Pokemon, and the giant ground sloth, aka megatherium , which was six meters long and, unlike its helpless modern descendant, could cleave a man in two. ...
What is Megatherium? What is a Mammal? What is a Wallaby? Discussion Comments ByJimmyT— On Sep 05, 2012 Wow, giant ground sloths were real? I had heard of them, but I always thought they were just some made-up animal for movies and stuff. Very interesting. ...
Megatherium side view. Megatherium. Yeah! Megatherium hindlegs fascinate me. Well-heeled. Tamandua duo. Silky anteater; wonderful. Armadillos. Anteaters round out a fab display on Xenarthra. The UMZC has everything from aardvarks to zebus. Here, conceptualized with other Afrotheria. Golden moles...