Fossil of Ice Age armadillo found in Peru

Hindustan Times ^ | May 20, 2005

[AntiGuv]

"It was an animal that appeared 2 million years before Christ and would have died out 10,000 to 15,000 years B.C. because of a freeze.

Are they sure about the cause? I bet they were good eatin'..

[taxesareforever]

I wonder if they also found a Volkswagen with the beetle.

[kenth]

That's one heck of a speed bump.

[fivekid]

Slug bug?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Not herbivores, insectivores, at least mine are.

[Question Liberal Authority]

When fossils are dug out of South America, it's traditional for Bill Clinton to try to hump it.

[King Prout]

ping before zZz

[King Prout]

ping before zZz

[SIDENET]

It was apparently run over by an Ice Age semi the size of a battleship.

[samiam1972]

All we need now is a 6 foot beer bottle to place between it's legs! ;-)

[Nathan Zachary]

The earth isn't that old.
Just as in Noah's time, things lived to great ages, it was just a big old armadillo.

[PLMerite]

You have a pet armadillo? What's that like?

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks, but these things have been known to exist, so finding yet another fossil isn't enough for a ping to the list.

[Caipirabob]

Ping!

6 foot armadillo? That's a lot of roadkill...

[DannyTN]

"and would have been the size of a Volkswagen Beetle "

Wow, How high could that thing jump??!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Not really pets, just things all over the yard, like minature bulldozers. I don't do much landscaping, which is just as well, I'd have to spend half My time shooting armadillos. They are almost blind, and very stupid, not pet material at all.

[funkywbr]

I heard it had a (fire)stone tire track on it's back.

[joesnuffy]

The large tasty armadillo was never endangered until God invented 'Aggies'....

[Ditter]

They work on my yard pretty good too. I have always heard they carried leprosy so I don't touch them.