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D'Alton recognized the great similarities of the fossils to Dasypus and speculated that it was a giant armadillo, contrary to the notion that they were from Megatherium. Despite this, D'Alton did not erect a new name for the fossils and instead wrote that additional material was necessary to distinguish it from other armadillos.
Jul 17, 2024 · Researchers have found evidence of butchery marks on the back of an ancient armadillo-like animal, suggesting humans were in South America 20,000 years ago -- earlier than many researchers...
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Glyptodont. Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armoured armadillos, reaching up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height, and maximum body masses of around 2 tonnes. They had short, deep skulls, a fused vertebral column, and a large bony carapace made up of hundreds of individual scutes.
Jul 19, 2024 · Researchers uncovered the giant, armadillo-like specimen after a bulldozer exposed its vertebrae and pelvis on the banks of the Reconquista River in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area of...
Jun 18, 2024 · An Argentinian farmer named Juan de Dios Sota was simply transporting his young cattle when he stumbled across something much older — a couple of 20,000-year-old giant armadillos. Right beneath the farmer’s feet beside the dried riverbed of the Vallimanca stream, were the fossilized remains of four gigantic armadillos also known as Glyptodon.
Jul 17, 2024 · CNN — More than 20,000 years ago in what’s now Argentina, some of the earliest people in the Americas encountered and butchered a giant armadillo-like creature with stone tools, according to a...
Jun 21, 2018 · One such enormous prehistoric creature that dwarfs its modern counterpart — and a creature that our ancestors came in contact with — was the glyptodon, a giant armadillo about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
