Megatherium

Megatherium (Megatherium americanum) was a huge and strong animal. Megatherium meant "giant beast". They were gigantic. Megatherium were massive mammals, in a group called the edentate group. They were also herbivores, so they ate vegetation, and might've scavenged meat.

Megatherium were very big sloths. They didn't live on trees, since they were too big for that. But the Megatheriums' closest living relatives were the tree sloths. They weighed around 3.8 tons. They were about 6 metres long and 4 metres tall.

Megatherium fossils were found in North and South America, mainly from Argentina and Texas. They weighed as much as a elephant. Elephants are heavy and huge. They had strong claws. They lived through an Ice Age, in the Pleistocene period. They lived 1.9 million-8,000 years ago. They were very astonishing animals.