EREMOTHERIUM #eremotherium

It is Pleistocene North America, you are a puma looking for food.

You unfortunately stumble upon the territory of a giant ground sloth, one who very much doesn't like trespassers on his property.

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The depiction of #Eremotherium that was showcased in #PrehistoricPlanet is interesting the moment I saw it in the trailer. It makes a lot of sense of it barely having hair like modern elephants and rhinos, and ever since I was pictured the sloth like that.

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A Tropical Titan: While #Eremotherium is not the primary focus of this segment, its introduction partnered with its bizarre calls gave it a huge presence. Seeing a sparsely fuzzy sloth in a documentary for the first time made this animal all the more alien in the best way.

I feel the need to address some comments that have been popping up here and there regarding the #Eremotherium design for #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge. To people saying that our paper fully refutes a sparse coat of fur in this genus, here is what we actually say:

This big fella can be seen in all it's skeletal glory in our Morian Hall of Paleontology.

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While we had a decent sample size for our recent paper on #groundsloth physiology and integument, there were a few that unfortunately didn't make the final cut. One such specimen was this #Eremotherium tooth from the Talara tar pits in Peru. #FossilFriday

So how did a decrease in metabolic rate affect the fuzziness of ground sloths? Surprisingly, quite a bit! Our results suggest prominent cold stress for a sparsely furred ground sloth save for populations of #Eremotherium near the equator. Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

Meaning of #eremotherium EREMOTHERIUM: Extinct genus of placental mammals, the order Pilosa and intertropical distribution... eremotherium

Significado de #eremotherium EREMOTHERIUM: Género extinto de mamíferos placentarios, del orden Pilosa y de distribución intertropical... eremotherium

Significado de #eremotherium EREMOTHERIUM: Gênero extinto de mamíferos placentários, a ordem Pilosa e distribuição intertropical... eremotherium

"Tanque Loma presents a rare accumulation of fossils...Now we know that #Eremotherium lived in groups and that it had parental behavior." - José Luis Román-Carrión, paleontologist at Escuela Politécnica Nacional. 🧪⚒️🦥