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Updated: May 14, 2025
The megatherium had wide iliacal expansions due to its semi-erect habits; but as its weight was in great part supported by the huge tail, and as the fermora rested in acetabula placed far forward, the leverage necessary to contract the lower portion of the pelvis was absent. Prof.
The largest of the edentates was the Megatherium, a. clumsy ground sloth bigger than a rhinoceros. The bones of the Megatherium are extraordinarily massive, the thigh bone being thrice as thick as that of an elephant, and the animal seems to have been well able to get its living by overthrowing trees and stripping off their leaves.
Did man, after his first inroad into South America, destroy, as has been suggested, the unwieldy Megatherium and the other Edentata? We must at least look to some other cause for the destruction of the little tucutuco at Bahia Blanca, and of the many fossil mice and other small quadrupeds in Brazil.
The Sloths, the Armadillos, the Ant-Eaters, the Pangolins, are all animals of rather small size; but formerly they were represented by the gigantic Megatherium, the Megalonyx, and the Mylodon, some of which were larger than the Elephant, and others about the same size of the Rhinoceros or Hippopotamus.
"I never believed you got half-seas over, anyhow; but, to return to our muttons, why didn't you hand down a few varieties of the Therium family to posterity? There were the Dinotherium and the Megatherium, either one of which would have knocked spots out of any leopard that ever was made, and along side of which even my woolly horse would have paled into insignificance.
The boys said it was nonsense, and the law of England couldn't put you in prison for just being as beautiful as the day, but all the same they followed the others out into the lane. "We shall be our proper selves after sunset, I suppose," said Jane. "I don't know," Cyril said sadly; "it mayn't be like that now things have changed a good deal since Megatherium times."
But would you mind not giving me any wishes till after breakfast? It's so hard to talk to anyone if they jump out at you with wishes you don't really want! 'You shouldn't say you wish for things if you don't wish for them. In the old days people almost always knew whether it was Megatherium or Ichthyosaurus they really wanted for dinner. 'I'll try not, said Anthea, 'but I do wish
This ended, I ran back to the feet of the Megatherium, and in a few minutes the royal party entered the mysterious gangway above described. A few steps more brought them under the feet of the, Megatherium. I bowed as low as my anatomy would let me, and the Queen and Prince bowed again most graciously, and so began act first.
"Yes, please," said the Psammead; "and, before we go any further, will you wish something for me?" "Can't you do wishes for yourself?" "Of course not," it said; "we were always expected to give each other our wishes not that we had any to speak of in the good old Megatherium days. Just wish, will you, that you may never be able, any of you, to tell anyone a word about Me." "Why?" asked Jane.
In this very Museum, which the visitor now treads in these cases of fossil bones which in themselves are common material enough, the lordly intellect that has traced their deep significance, proves that, of all animal types, man is the highest and the strongest removed from the most powerful mammoth and megatherium the bones of which he has re-fixed, that they may, as stones, tell the story of their wonderful characters when alive.
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