Monstrous fossils 'were armadillos', says DNA evidence
These fearsome but vegetarian beasts, the researchers say, got progressively bigger over time until their extinction at the end of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago. That places them in good company, as Pleistocene-epoch South America was also home to elephant-sized ground sloths and giant, sabre-toothed cats.
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Chauncey Koziol
Update: 2024-07-12