Megatherium

Megatherium




 * Pronunciation: Meg-ah-THEER-ee-um.
 * Megatheriums Latin name is: Megatherium americanum meaning: "Giant Beast"
 * The megantherium is a omnivore that means it ate meat and plants they can prove this because it took over what the saber tooth tiger killed and ate it
 * it also ate glyptodon which were as big as a volkswagen beetle
 * it lived in north and south america
 * it became exticnt 10,000 years ago one fossil is in cueva del milodon in Pataogonian, Chile
 * It weighed about 4 tons.
 * They dicovered that megatheriums skin and dung was mummified.
 * This animal walked up right on its hinds legs.
 * they inhabited woodlands and grasslands



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