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Animal Planet on the Looney Front, Part 8

Edit Huffington Post 24 Jan 2016
They descend from the tree only about once a week to pee and crap ... One ancient species, the Mylodon, lived in Argentine and Chilean Patagonia over 10,000 years ago until humankind did a mammoth on it, exterminating it too, possibly aided by changes in the weather ... Oh well, once a Philistine... The Cueva del Milodon (Mylodon's cave) has now become a national monument and a life-size replica of aforesaid Miley graces its entrance ... ....

X is for Xenarthran (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Nov 2015
(Source. University of Cambridge). Xenarthra is an order of primarily South American mammals that includes sloths, ant-eaters and armadillos. Several are sufficiently endangered to be on the IUCN 'red list' ... Not long afterwards, Darwin saw for the first time fossils of shells and other animals, embedded in soft sea cliffs, including a specimen of giant ground sloth which was to be named Mylodon darwinii in his honour ... Inset images ... (noodl....

Exploring the glaciers of Torres del Paine

Edit Stuff 16 Aug 2014
The park also has the world's third-largest ice field spawning imposing glaciers ... However, we stopped to see the Mylodon Cave about 25km to the north in the Benetiz Mountains. The main cave, used by prehistoric tribes, features a life-sized statue of the mylodon, a giant sloth that lived in the region together with sabre-toothed tigers and a 3m-tall long-necked mammal, the macrauchenia, who all disappeared about 10,000 years ago ... ....
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