The Pliocene ground sloth, <I>Eremotherium eomigrans</I>, was not only important because it was the earliest ground sloth in North America, but one of the biggest, rivalling <I>Megatherium americanum</I> in size, and had four, instead of three talons on each hand.
Here, an <I>E. eomigrans</I> prepares to gut the corpse of an American mastodon, <I>Mammut americanum</i>, much to the delight of its turkey buzzard companions.