Amazing Ancient Beasts
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Glypto Armadillo
(Image credit: Velizar Simeonovski)
This primitive, oversized armadillo relative, P. septentrionalis, likely weighed 200 pounds. It roamed high in the Andes in northern Chile 18 million years ago.
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