Car-Sized Creature Whacked with Tail's Sweet Spot (until 10,000 years ago)

Natural History Magazine ^ | Nov 15, 2009 | Harvey Leifert

[decimon]

I just knew Abner Doubleday didn’t really invent baseball.

Thagner Doublewhomp.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks wendy.

[stormer]

Excellent - I’ve got a friend who has a couple of slime molds named after him (of course, he did the naming), but the only thing named after me are a couple of cocktails.

[stormer]

To those of us that believe the Earth is more than 6,000 years old, it serve as evidence of armadillo evolution.

[SunkenCiv]

If I don’t clean the house pretty soon, I’ll have a bunch of different molds named after me...

[null and void]

He gets the Thagomizer and a louse named after him?

I’m jealous.

[Peanut Gallery]

I am not about to argue the age of the earth, here or anywhere else. However, I was under the impression that armadillos were around *back then* even as they are now (kinda the way alligators and crocodiles were/are).

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It looks like a large armadillo.

That would be because it is a large armadillo relative.

[stormer]

I understand.

[stormer]

Perhaps the most accessible explanation is that the modern armadillos (20 species) represents the remnant of what was once a much larger family, including our friend glyptodon. http://www.answers.com/topic/armadillos-dasypodidae-biological-family

[stormer]

But it could be worse...