The latest discovery comes four years after a similar find in the same region of Argentina.
Initially, Nievas thought that the scaly shell—which measures more than three feet in length—was a dinosaur egg.
Nievas's discovery was featured in a report on local television channel Todo Noticias—which several experts watched. One of these experts subsequently explained that the fossil was not a dinosaur egg but the shell of a glyptodon. Glyptodons emerged in South America no earlier than 35 million years ago, according to a 2016 study published in the journalFeaturing large, round, armored shells made up of bony plates, glyptodonts are the ancestors of modern armadillos. These animals also had armored tails which could act as a lethal club. In fact, the tails of some glyptodont species featured a knob of bone on the end that was spiked.
They found that glyptodonts represent a distinct subfamily within the family known as Chlamyphoridae—which today includes animals such as the dwarf pink fairy armadillo and the giant armadillo.
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