Megatherium americanum pulling on a palm tree. Extinct species of ground sloth endemic to South America, Early Pliocene to the Pleistocene. Megatherium americanum. Colour printed illustration by F. John from Wilhelm Bolsche’s Tiere der Urwelt (Animals of the Prehistoric World), Reichardt Cocoa company, Hamburg, 1908.

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