Habitat
Megatherium inhabited woodland and grassland environments of the lightly wooded areas of South America where it was an endemic species, as recently as 10,000 years ago. An example of these most recent finds is at Cueva del Milodon in Patagonian Chile. The closely related genus Eremotherium lived in more tropical environments further north, and in North America
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