Editing Mylodon (section)

== Discovery ==
''Mylodon'' was named by [[Richard Owen]] on the basis of a nearly complete lower jaw with teeth, which was found by [[Charles Darwin]] in a consolidated gravel cliff at [[Bahía Blanca]]<!--date unclear, could be 1832 in 1834-->, during [[Second voyage of HMS Beagle#Fossil finds|the survey expedition of HMS ''Beagle'']].<ref>{{aut|R. Owen}} (1840). Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle.  Part 1, Fossil Mammalia.  Pp. [http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F8.7&pageseq=27 63]-[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F8.8&pageseq=8 73].</ref> At several sites, preserved hide and dung have been discovered, and are in such a state of conservation that the people who first discovered them believed they belonged to a living animal, instead of to an extinct species. The discovery of fresh-looking samples of skin and dung sparked a small wave of expeditions during the early 20th century to search for a living example of the animal.<ref name="PATAGONIA">{{cite news|date=20 December 1902|title=Patagonia; Hesketh-Prichard's Stirring Tale of Exploration in the Far South|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/12/20/archives/patagonia-heskethprichards-stirring-tale-of-exploration-in-the-far.html|access-date=2008-11-22}}</ref> The samples have since been found to be around 10,000 years old, although they look fresh because of the extreme cold and stable conditions in the caves in which they were found. 

Well preserved samples of ''Mylodon'' remains have been discovered in the [[Cueva del Milodón]] site in [[Patagonia]], [[Chile]] along the southern flank of [[Cerro Benítez]] in the year 1896. Associated with bones of other early Patagonian animals, these remains of ''Mylodon'' date from an era earlier than 10,000 BC.<ref>[http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18820 C. Michael Hogan (2008) ''Cueva del Milodon'', Megalithic Portal]</ref> The [[American Museum of Natural History]] has exhibited a sample of ''Mylodon'' dung from Argentina with a note that reads "deposited by [[Theodore Roosevelt]]".<ref name="Bell2002" /><ref name="TRCenter">{{cite web|last=Roosevelt|first=T.R.|date=1915-01-04|title=Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Herbert Sherwood|url=https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o211307|access-date=2019-10-12|website=theodorerooseveltcenter.org|publisher=[[Dickinson State University]]}}</ref><ref name="AMNH">{{cite web|title=Roosevelt Collections|url=https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/south-american-peoples/roosevelt-collection|access-date=2019-10-12|website=amnh.org/exhibitions|publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History|AMNH]]}}</ref><ref name="Warren2015">{{cite web|last=Warren|first=D.|date=2016-05-28|title=The ground sloth|url=https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2015/05/28/the-ground-sloth/|access-date=2019-10-12|website=Essays in Idleness}}</ref>