The authors provided “convincing evidence” that people butchered this extinct armadillo 21,000 years ... Along with three perforated giant sloth bones found in Brazil that archaeologists ...

Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are ...

dinosaurs so big they would make a giant armadillo seem like a puppy. Weighing as much as one or two tons, glyptodonts went extinct in the Americas at the close of the last ice age, according to ...

Fossilized bones from an extinct, shelled mammal offer us the ... a handful of exposed fossil bones that belonged to an ancient armadillo-like mammal called a glyptodont. "This animal was heavily ...

South America was once home to some giant armadillo ancestors ... “This animal was a large extinct heavily armored armadillo,” says Delgado. “They had a large, bony carapace that covered ...