Tag Archives: Glossotherium

Going underground

Posted on March 4, 2016 by twilightbeasts

South America is a place full of stories about mysterious beasts. Standing seven feet tall, with long red hair and big sharp claws, tales of the mapinguari, have been passed down in South American Indian folklore. An odd tapir/jaguar hybrid … Continue reading →

Posted in Giant Ground Sloth | Tagged American Philosophical Society, Arctotherium, Armadillo, Cave bear, Glossotherium, Jan Freedman, Macrauchenia, mapinguari, Megalonyx jeffersonii, Megatherium, Megatherium americanum, Mylodon, Mylodon darwinii, Paca, Palaeovertebrate burrow, Scelidotherium, Smilodon, Thomas Jefferson, Toxodon | 25 Comments

Darwin’s 18 pence

Posted on November 13, 2014 by twilightbeasts

South American Pleistocene beasts were super weird. They owe their peculiar evolution to events that happened deep within the very bowels of the planet, hundreds of millions of years ago. Almost all the land that we know today was squashed together … Continue reading →

Posted in Toxodon | Tagged Charles Darwin, Glossotherium, Glyptodon, Gondwana, Great American Interchange, Macrauchenia, Mastodon, Mylodon, Notoungulata, Pangaea, Richard Owen, Rodenta, Smilodon, Toxodon | 9 Comments

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