Edentata

Why did the entire order Edentata all twenty species of armadillo, including the extinct giant armadillo, all six species of sloth, including extinct giant sloths, and all four species of anteater troop off unerringly for South America, leaving not a rack behind, leaving no hide nor hair nor armour plate of settlers somewhere along the way?

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Why did the entire order Edentata all twenty species of armadillo, including the extinct giant armadillo, all six species of sloth, including extinct giant sloths, and all four species of anteater troop off unerringly for South America, leaving not a rack behind, leaving no hide nor hair nor armour plate of settlers somewhere along the way?

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Macrauchenia, the existing small Edentata of their numerous gigantic prototypes?

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The relationship, though distant, between the Macrauchenia and the Guanaco, between the Toxodon and the Capybara, — the closer relationship between the many extinct Edentata and the living sloths, ant-eaters, and armadillos, now so eminently characteristic of South American zoology, — and the still closer relationship between the fossil and living species of Ctenomys and Hydrochærus, are most interesting facts.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The relationship, though distant, between the Macrauchenia and the Guanaco, between the Toxodon and the Capybara, — the closer relationship between the many extinct Edentata and the living sloths, ant-eaters, and armadillos, now so eminently characteristic of South American zoology, — and the still closer relationship between the fossil and living species of Ctenomys and Hydrochærus, are most interesting facts.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Macrauchenia, the existing small Edentata of their numerous gigantic prototypes?

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Did man, after his first inroad into South America, destroy, as has been suggested, the unwieldy Megatherium and the other Edentata?

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Did man, after his first inroad into South America, destroy, as has been suggested, the unwieldy Megatherium and the other Edentata?

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The Edentata, now confined to South America and the western coast of Africa, were also numerous in the Southern

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

The Edentata, being proved (as I hold) to have been mere temporary migrants into North America in the post-Pliocene epoch, form no part of its Tertiary fauna.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant