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giant ground sloth
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Megatherium
Megatherium
( from the
Greek
mega
[μέγας], meaning "great", and
therion
[θηρίον], "beast") was a
genus
of
elephant
-sized
ground sloths
endemic to
South America
that lived from the Middle
Pliocene
through the end of the
Pleistocene
. Its size was exceeded by only a few other land mammals, including
mammoths
and
Paraceratherium
.
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