Giant Armadillo Fossil (Size of a VW Beetle) Unearthed In Peru

[matcom]

Builders in southern Peru recently found the fossil of a giant, Ice Age armadillo, which lived as many as 2 million years ago and would have been the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. ''They were carrying out work inside a private home and stumbled upon this surprise during the digging," said Pedro Luna, an archeologist with the National Institute of Culture in the southern city of Cuzco. ''It was an animal that appeared 2 million years before Christ and would have died out 10,000 to 15,000 years BC because of a freeze." He said the fossil was ''almost complete" and was 6 feet 6 inches long, including the tail, 3 feet 6 inches wide, and with an average height of 3 feet. The glyptodon -- which means ''carved tooth" -- had short legs with clawed toes, a dome-shaped bony shell made of plates as much as nearly 3-inches thick, rings of bony armor on its tail, and armor on its head.

[GOPisEvil]

1. I wouldn't want to run into THAT in the middle of the highway!

:scared:

[Richardo]

3. Artist's rendering here

:D

[GOPisEvil]

Wow! Guns, too?

:scared:

:D

I was thinking about the Lone Star Beer Armadillo of the '80s myself. "I know about the armadillo!"

[Shell Beau]

2. Whoa!

That is one big-ass armadillo.

[benburch]

4. Why would you need an Armored Dildo?

And one that large??? Talk about your "size queens"!

[masshole]

6. these were developed in the 60's

in response to intelligence that indicated the Soviet's were developing an ultra-high frequency vibration device, that supposedly produced earth-shattering somethings.

[liberalitch]

5. Like one of my students just said when he saw me with...

a doughnut... "lemme get a bite"