Eremotherium, the Solitary Beast

Paleo Bites

Nov 30, 2021•28 min•Ep. 110

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(image source: https://www.deviantart.com/ladalbarran2000/art/Eremotherium-laurillardi-869911522)

Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Lexi Ryan discuss Eremotherium, a giant ground sloth that hopefully moved faster than a regular sloth, otherwise its territory would be like a few hundred square feet. From the Late Pleistocene, this 20-foot megatherid lived all the way up to the dawn of human civilization. Not just humans, but human civilization. Prehistory wasn’t that far back, folks!

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