Giant armadillo
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The giant armadillo, colloquially tatu-canastra, tatou, ocarro or tatú carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo. It lives in South America, ranging throughout as far south as northern Argen
Priodontes maximus at Régina
Individual foraging at night
Giant armadillo skeleton (back) and skeleton of six-banded armadillo (front) at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology in England
Captive individual at Villavicencio's Bioparque Los Ocarros
Glyptodont
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Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armored armadillos, reaching up to 1.5 metres in height, and maximum body masses of around 2 tonnes. They had short, deep skulls, a fused vertebral c
Giant armadillo
…maximus), colloquially tatu-canastra, tatou, ocarro or tatú carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo (although their extinct relatives the glyptodonts were much larger). It lives in South America, ranging throughout as far south as northern Argentina. This species is considered vulnerable to extinction…
Glyptodon 1
Doedicurus and Glyptodon by Robert Bruce Horsfall
Detail of Propalaehoplophorus scutes, early Miocene, in the permanent collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Peltephilus ferox