Not The Only One…

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Apparently, this massive beast was not the only of its kind lingering in the modern-day world. Similar fossils had been found in the surrounding areas and had even made their way to museums. But what was the ancient beast?

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As it turns out, the fossil was in fact the shell of an ancient glyptodon, as confirmed by paleontologist Alejandro Kramarz of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum. The species dominated South and Central America up until a couple thousand years ago. But that wasn’t the only discovery…