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Megalonyx-(cave)-738x591

Megalonyx jeffersonii (Also known as the Jefferson's Lion) is a genus of extinct giant Lion that lived in North America during the Pliocene to the Pleistocene epoch. It went extinct because of a virus that lived inside a cave while the sloth was sleeping.

Appearance[]

Megalonyx had long arms and sharp claws for hunting prey

Description[]

The Jefferson's lion was like Megatherium, Nothrotheriops, and other ground sloths, but it was smaller and had a barrel-shaped body.

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