Megatherium, means " Giant Beast" is a prehistoric giant sloth that lived in South America during the Pliocene period. The possible exception of the woolly mammoth , Megatherium is arguably the most famous of the giant mammals that once roamed this planet after the decline of the dinosaurs. Megatherium was also one of the last to disappear with remains appearing in the fossil record until as recently as the start of the Hologene, the period that has seen the rise of mankind and the dawn of civilisation. Continuing studies about Megatherium and giant ground sloths in general, have yielded a number of theories as to its diet. One thing which is absolute is that Megatherium would have eaten plants like other giant ground sloths and would have used its large size to reach up into trees to pick out vegetation that was beyond the scope of smaller herbivores, while some theorized that Megatherium ate meat .
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