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	Megatherium - LoveToKnow 1911
		MEGATHERIUM (properly Megalotherium), a huge extinct edentate mammal from the Pleistocene deposits of Buenos Aires, typifying the family Megatheriidae (or Megalotheriidae), and by far the largest representative of the Edentata.
		Except, indeed, for its relatively shorter limbs Megatherium americanum rivalled an elephant in bulk, the total length of the skeleton being 18 feet, five of which are taken up by the tail.
		The hind-foot is remarkable for the great backward projection of the calcaneum, and likewise for the peculiar shape of the astragalus; the middle toe alone carries a claw, this being of huge size, and ensheathed like those of the fore foot.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Megatherium (610 words)

	Megatherium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike its living relative, the tree sloth, Megatherium was one of the largest mammals to walk the Earth.
		The Megatherium had a robust skeleton with a large pelvic girdle and a broad muscular tail.
		A Megatherium is featured in the BBC documentary Walking With Beasts, shown taking over the kill of a pack of Smilodon, actually killing one in the process.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megatherium (1369 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Megatherium
		The Mylodon was a smaller breed of ground sloth, approximately ox-sized, related to the Megatherium and modern three-toed sloths and two-toed sloths.
		The Megatheriidae, which include a number of genera, are collectively e Megatherium, from the specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Megatherium (2734 words)

	Megatherium
		The megatherium is a giant, ground-dwelling sloth of the Pleistocene era.
		The megatherium is a slow moving creature, but is much more powerful than most other animals and can protect itself well.
		In combat, the megatherium rears back on its hind legs and attacks with swipes from each paw.
	www.enworld.org /cc/converted/beast/megatherium.htm (189 words)

	Paleocraft Megatherium
		Megatherium americanum, or more commonly the "giant ground sloth," was a very large mammalian herbivore that lived in the arid steppes of South America during the last ice age.
		At 20 to 25 feet in length and weighing close to 5 tons, the Megatherium was the largest of the ground-dwelling sloths and was proportional to a modern elephant in size.
		The first Megatherium specimen to be examined by scientists was sent to Spain in 1789.
	www.paleocraft.com /Megatherium.html (509 words)

	Megatherium - Animal Details
		Megatherium is a giant ground sloth that originally lived during the Ice Age.
		Megatherium’s large head is similar to that of a bear, although the jaw and peg-shaped teeth are designed for the herbivorous diet of all sloths.
		Megatherium can stand on its back legs, supported by its short and blunt tail, much like the large, herbivorous dinosaurs that preceded it.
	members.tripod.com /rc-anodizing/PEZT/animalsDD/megatherium.htm (368 words)

	Giant Sloth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Megatherium, also known as the giant land sloth, was a mammal that had shaggy fur.
		The Megatherium is related to the tree sloths of South America.
		Another theory to the cause of the species' extinction, is that humans brought over new diseases from Asia that were lethal to the Megatherium population.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0213522/giant_sloth.htm (220 words)

	:: Professor Paul's Guide to Mammals : Xenarthra;Edentates : Extinct mammals,family Megatheriidae;Giant Sloths : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Megatherium had a thick tail with a blunt point.
		Megatherium may have eaten smaller creatures if a drought or dry spell had wiped out its vegetation.
		Megatherium was definately a giant so size played a huge role in its defense.
	www.ppne.co.uk /index.php?m=show&id=6023 (257 words)

	Megatherium
		The medial carpal and metacarpal elements of Eremotherium and Megatherium (Xenarthra: Mammalia).
		On the tympanic region of the skull in the Megatherium.
		Megatherium lundi seijoi nueva subespecie pleistocena del Uruguay.
	www.sloth-world.org /Mtherum.html (683 words)

	Megatherium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Megatherium is de bekendste vertegenwoordiger van de grondluiaarden, een groep van uitgestorven zoogdieren.
		Megatherium was zes meter lang, twee meter hoog bij de heup en dit dier woog 3,8 ton - 500 maal zwaarder dan de hedendaagse luiaarden.
		Megatherium liep ook regelmatig op twee poten, wat voor een dier van deze omvang uitzonderlijk is.
	zire-pda.donkeylink.com /nl/Megatherium.htm (108 words)

	Megatherium Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Megatherium Club was a group of Washington, D.C. -based scientists who were attracted to that city by the Smithsonian Institution's rapidly growing collection, from 1857 to 1866.
		Many of the members had no formal education, but came by their expertise through extensive direct observation.
		The club was named for the Megatherium, an extinct species of giant sloth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megatherium_Club (288 words)

	Megatherium - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		It was the size of an elephant, in fact, it is estimated to have grown as long as 20 feet.
		The largest of these ground sloths was Megatherium, which grew to the size of a modern elephant.
		The largest Megatherium is estimated to have reached 20 feet, thus it was longer than an elephant, but probably not more massive.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=44555 (1554 words)

	Megatherium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		De Megatherium moet - in tegenstelling tot zijn levende verwanten (grondluiaards) een van de meest indrukwekkende dieren zijn geweest die ooit op aarde hebben rondgelopen.
		De Megatherium was een planteneter, maar mogelijk ook een aaseter.
		Megatherium is bekend door de vele skeletten en gefossiliseerde pootafdrukken en er zijn uitwerpselen en haar gevonden van verwante dieren.
	www.edu.amsterdam.nl /flevopark/Geschiedenis/geschiedenis%20aarde/megatherium.htm (212 words)

	Killer Sloth - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Killer Sloth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Megatherium americanum, a ground sloth, stood 12 feet tall, had 7-inch claws, and weighed close to 9,000 pounds.
		Because all existing sloths are vegetarians and because Megatherium lacked the sharp killing teeth typical of carnivores, paleontologists have assumed that it, too, was an herbivore.
		Fariña calculated that for an animal of Megatherium’s proportions to achieve maximum speed in a stabbing motion, the olecranon should be from three to five inches long--a close match to its actual length of about 4.75 inches.
	www.discover.com /issues/jun-97/departments/killersloth1158 (545 words)

	megatherium - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		megatherium [Gr.=large beast], extinct ground sloth, of the genus Megatherium, that was widely distributed in North and South America in the Pleistocene epoch.
		Fossil evidence shows that these mammals became extinct comparatively recently, about the time that the first explorers reached the New World.
		A huge beast, the megatherium attained a length of 18 ft (5.5 m) and probably weighed several tons.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-megather.html (262 words)

	Animal Prehistorique. Le Megatherium.Fiche.Images.
		Megatherium americanum vivait en Amérique du Sud (4 - 0,011 Ma) et en Amérique du Nord (1,8 - 0,011 Ma) jusqu'à une époque assez récente.
		Megatherium possédait une queue épaisse qui lui servait de point d'appui pour pouvoir soulever son corps vers les branchages.
		Megatherium fait partie du groupe des Xenarthres "articulations étranges".
	www.dinosoria.com /megatherium.htm (424 words)

	Paper 9: The extinction of dinosaurs
		One of them was Megatherium, which would have been living in South America, and perhaps he was ancestor of the modern lazy animal.
		Though megatherium had a big body but its weight was not too much so that branches were able to bear its weight as its resting-place.
		Scientists calculate the weight of megaterium considering its colossal weight but the mistake they make at their calculation is that they use the present high attraction force of earth.
	www.geocities.com /ramin1102000/chap1-4.html (475 words)

	The smallest and most ancient Megatherium (Tardigrada, Megatheriidae)
		It represents the earliest and smallest species of its genus and is the sister species of Megatherium americanum Cuvier, 1796 based on the following synapomorphies: very deep horizontal ramus of the dentary, prominent torsion of the femoral diaphysis, relatively concave medial and lateral femoral margins, and reduced patellar trochlea.
		Megatherium was apparently adapted to a temperate climate, as opposed to the more tropical range occupied by Eremotherium Spillmann, 1948.
		The discovery of the new species possibly indicates broad ecological similarity between the Pliocene Altiplano and the Argentinian lowlands, and that the clade may have originated on the Altiplano.
	www.mnhn.fr /publication/geodiv/g01n4a4.html (547 words)

	Xenarthra.Org - Ancient Sloths
		The second was the family Megatheriidae, to which the genus Megatherium belongs.
		The largest of the various species of ground sloths, such as and Megatherium americanum and Lestodon armatus, are known popularly as "giant ground sloths".
		Megatherium americanum was a huge, elephant-sized beast that grew up to 20 feet (6 meters) in length and weighed up to 7,000 pounds (3,175 kg).
	www.xenarthra.org /sloth/ground (602 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Megatherium
		Weighing almost a much as an elephant, Megatherium must have been one of the most impressive animals to walk the Earth.
		Megatherium was a massive ground sloth, covered in long dark hair.
		Megatherium is thought to have been a herbivore, although there have been suggestions that its long claws and very strong forelimbs may have allowed it to scavenge meat, or even kill animals such as glyptodonts.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/456.shtml (272 words)

	dinos
		The megatherium differs strikingly from existing quadrupeds of corresponding bulk, in the vast proportions of its anterior extremities.
		That the animal was not carnivorous, is settled by the structure of its molar teeth, it lacks incisors; therefore
		The megatherium needed not agility for securing prey, for it was not carnivorous; not for flight, for its size alone must have been a protection against any living foe.
	www.150.si.edu /siarch/guide/dinos.htm (1028 words)

	Megatherium: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Megatherium Megatherium Megatheria were a group of elephant -size Giant-sloths...
		...recently large ground-dwelling sloths, Megatherium, could be found in North America.
		Megatheria were a group of elephant-size giant sloths[?] that became extinct about 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age during the on-going Holocene extinction event.
	www.encyclopedian.com /me/Megatherium.html (95 words)

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		The largest of these ground sloths was Megatherium which grew to the size of a modern elephant with a weight over five tons.
		Most scientists think that the large claws on Megatherium americanum were used for stripping leaves and bark for its vegetarian diet.
		Like other giant creatures that disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene period (about 10,000 years ago), Megatherium, its smaller sloth cousin, Mylodon, and other varieties of the giant sloth are now extinct.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /sloth.htm (683 words)

	Megatherium
		Now, technically, Megatherium's not a Tertiary, because he came later (in the Quaternary).
		He's a good addition to the group, and was the first bipedal mammal I did in the series.
		To me, Megatheriums always looked like a cross between a bear and a giant kangaroo.
	members.tripod.com /dinofigs/tertiaries/id4.html (85 words)

	DESIGN UP TO SCRATCH?
		To Buckland Megatherium was an excellent creature to demonstrate the design of God for reasons, which shall become apparent.
		Buckland pointed out that Megatherium was related to the sloths and then stressed that the sloths were "a family whose structure is very anomalous, and has been misunderstood by almost every naturalist including Buffon, even the immortal Cuvier himself."(p8) Cuvier had recently died of cholera and his death was deemed a great loss to science.
		Buckland was, perhaps, the strongest scientific disciple of Paley and his lecture on Megatherium demonstrates a relentless searching for design in the most unpromising of animals.
	www.oswestryschool.org.uk /decimus/design.htm (4785 words)

	IBSS - The Bible and Science - Megatherium
		When the bones are dug up they are covered with plaster to preserve them from damage on their way back to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
		Note how small it is compared to the Megatherium's shoulder blade.
		Now the completed skeleton of Megatherium is ready for display.
	www.bibleandscience.com /science/megatherium.htm (163 words)

	The Rolex Awards: preserving prehistoric animal footprints, T. Manera
		Manera was enthralled, and has dedicated much of her energy since to ensuring that the footprints be allowed to tell their story.
		There are thousands of prints on the 20-to-30-metre-wide fragile siltstone shelf, an example of prehistory that runs for almost three kilometres along the coast.
		The most striking footprints are huge – about 90cm long and 44cm wide – and belong to a Megatherium, a sloth-like mammal four metres tall and weighing up to four tonnes.
	www.rolexawards.com /laureates/laureate-76-manera.html (1527 words)

	Megatherium - $18.95 : The Child's World, Publishing K-8 Educational Books Since 1968
		Megatherium was one of the biggest ground sloths that ever existed.
		This "great beast" weighed between 3 and 4 tons and was enormous compared to its modern-day relatives, the tree sloths.
		Read Megatherium to find out more about this huge creature, as well as to learn interesting facts about other ancient ground sloths.
	www.childsworld.com /shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=9004317&zenid=daebf0c6fa2986669f0299413b1b4e97 (88 words)

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