12,000 year old DNA is responsible for solving the evolutionary mystery of the giant armored glyptodont. With new advances in ancient DNA capture, a team of scientists was able to extract genetic ...

A new genetic analysis of the glyptodont, an ancient armored creature the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, reveals that it's closely related to the modern-day armadillo. Glyptodonts roamed the Earth for ...

Scientists have sequenced the entire mitochondrial genome of the ancient glyptodont, a giant, strange mammal and ancestor of the modern-day armadillo, which first appeared approximately 4 million ...

The puzzle over the identity of the glyptodont, an extinct giant land animal from South America, has been solved - and the creature has been confirmed as being an ancient armadillo as big as a truck.

Giant armadillo-like creatures that lumbered across the plains of South America until around 10,000 years ago have some close living relatives, to scientists' surprise. A new study by an international ...

The Government of the Province of Córdoba commenced the recovery and analysis of fossil remains discovered by a student near the Río Ctalamochita, according to La Voz del Interior. On the morning of ...

For many of us, a stroll over the Christmas holidays is relatively uneventful but for one man in Argentina, his jaunt was much more exciting. After popping out for some fresh air, farmer Jose Antonio ...

Giant armadillo-like creatures that lumbered across the plains of South America until around 10,000 years ago have some close living relatives, to scientists' surprise. A new study by an international ...