A restoration of Megatherium from H.N. Hutchinson’s Extinct Monsters. For over a century and a half dinosaurs have been the unofficial symbols and ambassadors of paleontology, but this was not always ...

The final two specimens of Darwin's fossil mammals to have been scanned belonged to an extinct giant ground sloth. In the latest update to the digitisation of Darwin's fossil mammals project, ...

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Discover how Megatherium americanum, often seen as a giant sloth, may have been an ancient predator instead of a mere herbivore. The lethargic two-foot-long tree-hugging sloths of the South and ...

Scientists have examined the diet of the extinct Giant Sloth Megatherium. Based on analyses of the collagen in the fossil bones, the researchers concluded in their study that Megatherium subsisted on ...

In some respects, Washington, D.C., in the 1850s was an unlikely place to usher in a golden age of American natural history. Philadelphia and Boston had long been the traditional centers of American ...

The Megatherium Club was an informal group of young naturalists who made the Castle their temporary home in between expeditions to the outer reaches of the United States, or who otherwise worked or ...

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Unknown Island has to be one of the crummiest dinosaur movies ever made. Though it came out about 15 years after King Kong debuted, the plot is broadly the same and executed with less skill – young ...