Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth skull Gallimimus larger than Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus

larger than Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus

Duckbill skin

The fossils in the sets are each placed in a separate bag with a label which gives the common name

Weight:33 pounds (15 kilos)

Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth skull Gallimimus larger than Tyrannosaurus and GiganotosaurusMegatherium (pronounced MEG ah THEER ee um)(now known as Eremotherium) was a huge, bulky, slow moving mammal that lived during the Pleistocene epoch in South America. It went extinct about 11,000 years ago. This ice age mammal was the largest of the ground sloths; Megatherium's name means "great beast." Megatherium was named by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1856; the first Megatherium fossil was found in Brazil in 1789. Anatomy: Megatherium had peg