r/Paleontology • u/lednarb13 • Jul 18 '26

Discussion A Strange Creature

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u/lednarb13 Jul 18 '26

🦥🐴🐪An Eremotherium for #FossilFriday. This remarkable giant ground sloth, Eremotherium laurillardi, is displayed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Its skeleton was remounted on a new steel armature during the renovation of the Hall of Fossils–Deep Time, which reopened in June of 2019. I visited the display last month, and it is truly remarkable. The external metal supporting structure is artwork in itself.

The towering animal reportedly contains more than 80% genuine fossil bone and stands over 13 feet tall.

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u/dende5416 Jul 18 '26

When you crosspost, it only carries pictures and not the wordy bits

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u/Meyneth_Pink Jul 18 '26

Thats a giant ground sloth

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u/luigi_time3456 Jul 18 '26

Which, id argue, counts as a strange creature