Megafauna Mania
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 9th, 2009
Bullyland Megatherium.
Gustavo Lara, Director of Culture of the town of Roque Perez, is shown in various photos holding a fossil bone of a Megatherium, a variety of large ground sloth, at an excavation site on the outskirts of Roque Perez, some 135 km (84 miles) south of Buenos Aires, this week.
Fossil bones of a glyptodont (replica above), the nearly complete skeleton of a Megatherium and a head of a Stegomastodon dated from the Pleistocene, the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago, were found by paleontologists in the sediments of the Salado River. Due to a drought that has been affecting the area for months, local media and Reuters reported the fossils are appearing.
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“Fossil bones of a glyptodont (replica above), the nearly complete skeleton of a Megatherium and a head of a Stegomastodon dated from the Pleistocene, the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago…” Are you saying that the creature above was alive and walking this earth at the same time as men? 10,000 years I think both sides of the debate will acknowledge the existence of mankind then. And if this one was around then, why not other dinos.
Dinosaurs are not fossil mammals, which is what is being mentioned here.
A general definition of the Pleistocene is given, of which some of that time overlaps with modern humans.
It is generally acknowledged that some forms of ground sloths and perhaps other fossil mammals might have lived at the same time as humans, of course.
The glyptodont was a prehistoric mammal and according to wikipedia:
They became extinct about 10,000 years ago. The native human population in their range is believed to have hunted them and used the shells of dead animals as shelters in inclement weather.
So really not that long ago.