What is megatherium?

Megatherium was a gigantic land sloth, among the largest mammals who have ever lived, perhaps the largest. It was around the weight of the African bull of an elephant, 5 tons and standing on his hind legs, was 20 feet high. Although she was herbivorous, Megatherium had huge sharp claws that could be used to stab predators to defense. Megatherium was so great that it had no predators in its ecological niche because it was too big to take off. In Latin it means megatherium "Giant Beast". Its relatively recent death increases the possibility that one day we can restore our intact genetic material and revive it. Megatherium belongs to the category of animal, land sloths, which were numerous in prehistoric times, but today quite extinct. It is assumed that the last of land sloths may have only died out 1550 on Hispanioli and Cuba. They were all large herbivores, but Megatherium was the biggest.

Megatherium is one of the Pleistocene Megafauna, which included giant cats, lizards, bears, wolves and even kangaroos. This megafauna lived all over the world, although the Megatherium range was limited to America. Megatherium would live in the last meats of land to be colonized by human settlers, and would be able to avoid hunting parties. For a group of people, it had to be a daunting task to take off the megatherium, although - probably a number of poisoned arrows were required. However, meat from such an animal could probably feed hundreds.

Fossil prints from Megatherium suggest that he has spent a lot of time walking on his hind legs, although there are many controversies about what it would look like as it was. Ga Jezhodrápy was so huge that it would have to go sideways as an ant.