Wiki: M. americanum skeleton, Natural History Museum, London
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Megatherium, a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America. Cuvier, Georges. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes. t. 4 (1812). http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40031828. Digitized by Smithsonian Libraries. Credit PAUL D STEWART / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
This story could not have been written without the fantastic award-winning The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium, by Juan Pimentel.
Thanks to many scholars who generously answered questions and sent articles. Juan Pimental first and above all.
Many thanks to Emeritus Professor Donald K Grayson, Professors Irina Podgorny and the great Richard Fariña. Also unbelievably generous with their time were Karina V. Chichkoyan, Christine Argot, Ben Miller of the Chicago Field Museum and Emeritus Professor Paul Braterman.
BOOKS
Hounds of the Lords, by Kevin Vost
The Hilarious Memoir of a Basque Nun, Catalina de Erauso. Translated by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto.
The Novel Dragon Teeth, by Michael Crichton
The novel Against the Inquisition, by Marcos Aguinis
Darwin's Fossils, by Adrian Lister
The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin
by Christopher Mcgowan
Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology, by Stanley Hedeen
Wiki: specimen of M. americanum in Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, was the first prehistoric animal skeleton mounted, in 1795.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
BJHS 46(4): 647–674, December 2013. © British Society for the History of Science 2012: Download Fossil_dealers_the_practices_of_comparative_anatomy_and_british_diplomacy_in_latin_america_18201840, 1820–1840 IRINA PODGORNY*
And
Juan Bautista Bru (1740-1799) and the Description of the Genus Megatherium
José M. López Piñero ( Download 4331042)
Journal of the History of Biology
Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 1988), pp. 147-163Argot, C. (2008). Changing Views in Paleontology:
Argot, C. (2008). Changing Views in Paleontology:
The Story of a Giant (Megatherium, Xenarthra). Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology. Pp 37-50.
Juan Bautista Bru and the First Fossil Mount at Extinct Monsters
Juan Pimentel, “Across nations and ages. The Creole collector and the many lives of the Megatherium”, en Lisa Roberts, Simon Schaffer, and James Delbourgo .
Sloth bones and anteater tongues, in
Across Nations and Ages
Above Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.Below: Las castas. Casta painting showing 16 racial groupings, likely not depicting social reality. Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico.
And Michael also sent this.
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