glyptodonts

Even avocados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Even avocados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Even avocados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

The armadillos, which were actually rather bulky and huge relatives called glyptodonts, are especially note worthy in that fossils of them do also show a succession of rounder and heavier “chain-mail” armor, fusion of the armor to the pelvis, a shorter and probably trunk-bearing snout, hoof-like feet instead of claws, and a “mace-tail” instead of the armadillo-like tail wrapped in simple ossicles.

Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Conclusion - The Panda's Thumb 2005

As Darwin traveled through South America he picked up the fossilized remains of enormous, extinct, armored mammals which would later come to be known as glyptodonts.

Wired Top Stories Brian Switek 2011

One of the most spectacular pre-industrial extinction events was that of the Pleistocene megafauna -- the saber-toothed cats, mammoths, dire wolves, giant ground sloths, glyptodonts, and all those other animals familiar from museum dioramas.

Who Do You Say I Am 2010

In 1832 he visited Patagonia and collected the remains of glyptodonts, megatheres and toxodonts.

Why I hate Darwin’s beard Darren Naish 2007

In 1832 he visited Patagonia and collected the remains of glyptodonts, megatheres and toxodonts.

Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

Limb bone strength and habits in large glyptodonts.

More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest Darren Naish 2006

I was thinking about brontornithines hunting glyptodonts by simply walking up to them and kicking through their armour!

More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest Darren Naish 2006