How To Use Mylodon In A Sentence
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Instead, we are treated to four vigorous profiles, with only the lion and the mylodon drawn full frontal.
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See the vast mylodon, the scelidothere, and the still more colossal megathere!
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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Among the species whose bones were found were the macrauchenia, tiger, horse, and mylodon.
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The discovery gave rise to much fanciful conjecture; it was even said that the mylodon had been domesticated and kept tame in the caves; but Doctor Moreno laughed at the supposition and said that it lacked any foundation in fact.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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His notion that the Chinese loaded up a few mylodons (giant ground sloths) in Patagonia, only to let one escape in Australia, would not have withstood a couple of minutes on the internet.
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The skin looked so fresh the animal was thought to have recently died, but it turned out to be the 10,000-year-old remnants of a mylodon, an extinct 10-foot-tall sloth.
So Far, So Good
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Of the mylodon Doctor Moreno found not only comparatively fresh bones, with bits of sinew, but dried dungalmost as large as that of an elephantand some big pieces of skin.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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The most plentiful of these California ground-sloths, the mylodon, was about the size of a rhinoceros; an unwieldy, slow-moving creature, feeding on plants, and in appearance utterly unlike anything now living.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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The cave now contains an unbelievably horrible life-size plastic model of a mylodon.
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To these succeed transported soils (_alluvium_), containing the gigantic bones of ancient mammalia, such as the mastodons, the dinotherium, and the megatheroid animals, among which is the mylodon of Owen, an animal upwards of eleven feet in length, allied to the sloth.
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The book has a number of factual errors, which even I can identify, such as claiming that the Chinese picked up some mylodons (extinct giant sloths) when they stopped by Patagonia.
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In Patagonia" 1977 begins in his grandmother's dining room with a cabinet containing among its treasures a dried piece of mylodon skin sent by a cousin, "Charley Milward the Sailor.
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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.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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The Mylodon, moreover, was furnished with a long extensile tongue like that of the giraffe, which, by one of those beautiful provisions of nature, thus reaches with the aid of its long neck its leafy food.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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These remains included isolated teeth and a lower jaw of Equus, postcranial remains and lower molars of Mammuthus, a tooth and dermal ossicles of a mylodontid edentate, and glyptodont scutes.
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The glyptodon has if anything replaced the mylodon in my affections—there are about 6 whole ones in the Museum of La Plata—an enormous armadillo up to 9-10 feet long, each scale of its armour looking like a Japanese chrysthanthemum.
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It was in fact, evidently a piece of the skin of a mylodon, which had survived in this region until modern times.
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At any rate, with this example before us, we need not wonder overmuch at the ability of megatherium and mylodon to hold their own in the presence of the sabretooth.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
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It was he who made the extraordinary discovery in a Patagonian cave of the still fresh fragments of skin and other remains of the mylodon, the aberrant horse known as the onohipidium, the huge South American tiger, and the macrauchenia, all of them extinct animals.
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