Surprise: they find fossil remains of a thousand-year-old and gigantic megatherium on the beaches of Mar Chiquita

2023-05-02 15:43:40

staff of Municipal Museum of Natural Sciences Pachamama from the Buenos Aires seaside resort of Santa Clara found in the area from Camet Northgame of little sea, Fossil remains of a gigantic and thousand-year-old megatherium, the largest sloth that inhabited America.

As reported from the Ministry of Tourism and Culture of Mar Chiquitathe fossils found of this extinct mammal that lived in South America until about 8,000 years ago-among which are a large number of ribsthree teeth, two thirds phalangesa cervical vertebra and two lumbothoracic-, had buried in a lagoon depression.

“It is a megatherium with hefty bodymembers provided with claws, small heada narrow snout and a long tongue which it used to tear off the branches of the trees with which it fed,” the specialists explained.

In addition, they reported that the gigantic animal to which these found fossil bones belong could reach measure more than 4 meters long and weigh more than 4,000 kilos.

Now, the specialists confirmed that they will continue working in the Camet Norte area to try to find other fossil remains of this megatherium or of other animals that could be hidden in the place.

It should be noted that It is not the first time that fossil remains of a megatherium have appeared on the Buenos Aires coastsince while at the beginning of last year a 8 year old boy I had found a skull of this species while walking along the rocks in the area of The cliffssouth of Mar del Plata, in June of that same year, a 12 year old girl discovered a vertebra of another megaterium, in the Mar del Plata neighborhood of The hammer.