[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).

[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