Buenos Aires, November 6: Workers at a trash dump on the outskirts of the Argentina capital found the remains of a glyptodont - a sort of giant armadillo - that experts say could be one million years old, according to the Spanish news agency EFE.
The find was made in the town of San Miguel, some 40 km from Buenos Aires, said Esteban Soibelzon, a palaeontologist with the La Plata city museum, who took charge of the removal and restoration of the fossil remains.
'This fauna is characteristic of the Pampas region and we estimate that this example has an age of about one million years,' he said in remarks to the online edition of the Buenos Aires daily Clarin.
Soibelzon said that the last of the glyptodonts became extinct about 10,000 years ago. Herbivores, glyptodonts were around 1.5-metres tall, three-metres long and weighed about 1,000 kg.
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