sentences:  Cuvier determined that "Megatherium" was a sloth, and at first believed that it used its large claws for climbing trees, like modern sloths, although he later changed his hypothesis to support a subterranean lifestyle, with the claws used to dig tunnels.Fossils of "Megatherium" and other western megafauna proved popular with the Georgian era public until the discovery of the dinosaurs some decades later.Since the original discovery, numerous other fossil "Megatherium" skeletons have been discovered across South America, in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia (Quipile, Cundinamarca), Guyana, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.