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Definition of Megathere

Megathere
Megathere Meg"a*there, Megatherium Meg`a*the"ri*um, n. [NL. megatherium, fr. Gr. me`gas great + thyri`on beast.] (Paleon.) An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.

Meaning of Megathere from wikipedia

- Megatheriidae is a family of extinct ground sloths that lived from approximately 23 mya—11,000 years ago. Megatheriids appeared during the Late Oligocene...
- bought by the yard" and dismissed it as a "vast, contentless, commercial megathere." Military dolphin Merle, Robert (1967). Un animal doué de raison [A Sentient...
- by Miño-Boilini et al. (2025). Evidence interpreted as indicating that megathere ground sloths had lower body temperatures than reported in other large...
- to believe that glyptodontine fossils were actually those of armored megatheres. Larrañaga wrote to French scientist Auguste Saint Hilaire about the discovery...
- in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. It is a smaller representative of the megatheres. Despite being one of the earliest-known members of the family, its dentition...
- 000 lb), making it one of the largest known ground sloths, alongside the megatheres Megatherium and Eremotherium. The skull of Lestodon armatus has a very...
- that at this time the nothrotheres were already differentiated from the megatheres and possessed the characteristics that would identify them in later times...