It’s well known that the islands of the Mediterranean were formerly home to an assortment of island endemics, all of which are now extinct. Most of the best known ones are mammals like pygmy elephants, pygmy hippos, pygmy megacerine deer and giant dormice, but there were also large birds, tortoises and lizards. My excellent friend…

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.

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I love this animal, and I consider this one to be one of my best drawings ever. It was hard to learn how to draw this animal, specially because theres i... Megatherium americanum

Megatherium was a very large giant ground sloth of Pliocene and Pleistocene South America. A member of the Xenarthran family of mammals (along with Doedicurus), Megatherium had huge claws, grew to 6–8 meters long from nose to tail, weighed more than an elephant, and usually ate vegetation, but it was also large enough and strong enough to occassionlly supplement its diet with carrion scavenged from predators, and when it wanted to, nothing got in its way As big as an elephant, it lived in

Megatherium Americanum a ground sloth that lived during the Pliocene to the Pleistocene in South and North America. With a length of about 6 meters it is one of the largest land mammals ever.

Megatherium americanum

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