Pilosa Collection

Ground sloth droppings or coprolite
Ground sloth (Mylodon darwinii) fossilised droppings or coprolite, 13, 000 year old specimen from the Pleistocene, Chile

Megatherium, giant ground sloth
Skeleton of an extinct creature that roamed cool, dry, scrub and grasslands of South America 100, 000 years ago. On display at the Natural History Museum, London

Giant Ground Sloth, Natural History Museum
Photograph of a Skeleton of the Giant Ground Sloth (Megatherium Americanum). July 1902. Archive ref: PH/173/244 Date: 1902

Great Irish Elk, Megatherium
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Restorations of animals from Tertiary period
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Megatherium and Glyptodon
Sheet 5 of a series of posters by Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862 showing Megatherium and Glyptodon. Date: circa 1862

Spanish needle, Bidens pilosa (Striped-flowered bidens, Bidens striata)

Toad lily, Tricyrtis maculata (Tricyrtis pilosa)

Hairy phlox or lychnidea, Phlox pilosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1810

Megatherium americanum, giant ground sloth

Sketch by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Skin from a Ground sloth
This rare sloth skin, one of the best examples of its kind, was found in a cave in Chile in the early 1900 s

Mylodon
Illustration (p.140) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Mylodon darwinii, ground sloth
Jaw bone collected by Charles Darwin when he stepped off the Beagle in Argentina. First officially recorded by Richard Owen, the first Superintendent of the Museum

Lemur skulls from Madagascar
Two skulls show the incredible diversity of lemurs on Madagascar

Bradypus tridactylus, pale-throated three-toed sloth
Pale-throated three-toed sloths. Plate from a collection of original watercolour drawings, c. 1781-1785, by Sarah Stone, held at the Natural History Museum

Waterhouse Way, the Natural History Museum
Children in Waterhouse Way looking at the Megatherium, or giant sloth skeleton, Gallery 20, Life Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London

Bradypus sp. three-toed sloth
A mounted skeleton of a three-toed sloth, an arboreal edentate from South and Central America, having long hook-like claws by which it hangs from tree branches

Mylodon darwinii, ground sloth toenails
13, 000 year old specimens of ground sloth toenails dating from the Pleistocene, Chile

Ground sloth skin
Skin of the extinct ground sloth (Mylodon darwinii). This is a 13, 000 year old specimen from the Pleistocene, Chile

Megatherium skeleton
Plate 72 from Le Regne Animal Vol 2 by Georges Cuvier

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