megatherium
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Professor Oliver Farrington, also of the Field Museum, found fossilized bones of a fantastic toadlike creature, probably the extinct megatherium, in the state of Bahia, Brazil.
From Time Magazine Archive
The skull belonged to a megatherium, a mammoth version of a sloth.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
We have pleasure in informing you that it is distantly related to the megatherium, and, since the extinction of the latter, has been very generally used for hack purposes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
Its mammoths and its mastodons, its rhinoceri and its hippopotami, its enormous dinotherium and colossal megatherium, greatly more than equalled in bulk the largest mammals of the present time, and vastly exceeded them in number.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh
The edentates not only included various ground-sloths, among them the megatherium, which was the size of an elephant, and the somewhat smaller mylodon, but also creatures as fantastic as those of a nightmare.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore
Little could he imagine our own era's "wasteful megatheria."
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023
All over the town manufactories and public buildings of colossal size stand, like megatheria, knee-deep in a jungle of houses.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
The enquirer who undertakes the study of it will sometimes be scarcely less surprised than would be the naturalist who should unexpectedly stumble upon antediluvian megatheria grazing tranquilly in the same field with prize Southdowns.
From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir
I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks one on another.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
Surely they were the weirdest, most destructive and wasteful megatheria in the whole history of mechanical invention.
From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
They came in on the Overland, and I find that the professor has made the long journey on the strength of what I once told him about the megatheriums and things.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis
"Why, for my part, on the contrary, I should have taken special care to preserve megatheriums and pterodactyles, and all the antediluvian species of which we are unfortunately deprived by his neglect."
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules
"If a thousand megatheriums were let loose upon the world, in twenty-four hours they would all be in museums."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various
I feel inclined to cry 'a fig for your big oysters, and your bigger megatheriums.'
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
And one year I had the whole blooming faculty out here on a fossil expedition; but, by Heaven, McCloud, some of them looked more like megatheriums than what they dug up did.”
From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
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