Fossil skeleton of an extinct giant ground sloth or megathere, Megatherium americanum. After an illustration by the Spanish artist Juan Bautista Bru de Ramón for zoologist Georges Cuvier, 1796. Copperplate engraving by Henry Mutlow from George Shaws General Zoology: Mammalia, G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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Caption: Fossil skeleton of an extinct giant ground sloth or megathere, Megatherium americanum. After an illustration by the Spanish artist Juan Bautista Bru de Ramón for zoologist Georges Cuvier, 1796. Copperplate engraving by Henry Mutlow from George Shaws General Zoology: Mammalia, G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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Print size: 62.8 × 37.2 cm | 2922.0 × 1729.1 in (300 dpi)

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