Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth skull Gallimimus larger than Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus

larger than Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus

Poster from the

10---Bothriolepis

Duckbill skin

Erdmann in 1998 and deposited at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)

Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth skull Gallimimus larger than Tyrannosaurus and GiganotosaurusMegatherium (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