Owlscrying Posted November 12, 2007 #1 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Lima - Workers in Peru stumbled upon the remains of a megathere, an extinct elephant-sized ground sloth that roamed the American continent in the Pleistocene epoch. The rare find occurred Friday, as workers were digging a well in the village of Huayllaspanca east of Lima. The skeleton is only the second of a Megatherium americanum ever found in Peru. Herbivores that weighed about as much as an elephant, megatheres grew as tall as six metres. The bones, found in Huayllaspanca, include the jaw, pelvis, and ribs. go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporkling Posted November 12, 2007 #2 Share Posted November 12, 2007 are sloths that big? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00000000000000000000000000 Posted November 12, 2007 #3 Share Posted November 12, 2007 are sloths that big? No, but they used to be. That's where the whole "extinct" part of the thread title comes into play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmazingAtheist Posted November 15, 2007 #4 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Holy crap .. Thats massive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekorig Posted November 15, 2007 #5 Share Posted November 15, 2007 A nice photo showing the size of this extinct animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chauncy Posted November 15, 2007 #6 Share Posted November 15, 2007 (edited) are sloths that big? No, but they used to be. That's where the whole "extinct" part of the thread title comes into play. Its difficult for a large body with a slow metabolism to survive such as the Megatherium ..........the little sloths will be soon extinct aswell.... for this very reason. Edited November 15, 2007 by Chauncy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primeval Posted November 15, 2007 #7 Share Posted November 15, 2007 SLOTHS!!! WE SLEEP 18 BUT WE ALWAYS PARTY TWENTY FOOO!!!! SLOTHS! SLOTHS! SLOTHS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chauncy Posted November 15, 2007 #8 Share Posted November 15, 2007 SLOTHS!!! WE SLEEP 18 BUT WE ALWAYS PARTY TWENTY FOOO!!!! SLOTHS! SLOTHS! SLOTHS! More like gluttons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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