Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to Central America and South America that lived from the Pliocene through to the Pleistocene existing for approximately 5.3 million years.

The extinct giant ground sloth Megatherium and the horned glyptodont Panochthus in prehistoric South America. Both animals would eventually migrate into North America.

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Ryan Pancoast is raising funds for Common Ground: A Frontier Fantasy Story on Kickstarter! A hardcover printing of my Frontier Fantasy story, Common Ground. A sweet story with an important message.

A new book from former Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough describes his journey into the collections in search of connections to his heritage

Eremotherium laurillardi Lund, 1842 in de S. Barbosa, de Araújo-Júnior, ... et Oliveira, 2022. DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-08107-1 Artwork by Júlia d’Oliveira. twitter.com/tupandactylus Abstract The Toca das Onças cave is one of the most important Quaternary mammal deposits of Brazil. Two different hypotheses have been proposed to explain the preservation mode of its skeletal remains: either the animals climbed down into the cave, or it could have functioned as a natural trap. Evaluation of…

Design and Illustration for Pleistocene (Ice Age) specimens and fossils, natural history museum signage.

Megatherium in temple ruins from a Lost World project I am developing.