'Pre-historic' animal shell found in Argentina
'Pre-historic' animal shell found in Argentina
December 29, 2015
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A glyptodont shell found in Carlos Spegazzini, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina on December 29, 2015
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A passer-by on Christmas Day found a meter-long shell on a riverbank in Argentina which may be from a glyptodont, a prehistoric kind of giant armadillo, experts said Tuesday.
A local man thought the black scaly shell was a dinosaur egg when he saw it lying in the mud, his wife Reina Coronel told AFP.
Her husband Jose Antonio Nievas found the shell beside a stream at their farm in Carlos Spegazzini, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the capital Buenos Aires.
"My husband went out to the car and when he came back he said, 'Hey, I just found an egg that looks like it came from a dinosaur," she said.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-12-pre-historic-animal-shell-argentina.html#jCp
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"Carapace" is probably the more appropriate term.
(I thought that was a picture of a tire at first ! )
