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Peru: Ice Age armadillos the size of cars, fossil shows
Reuters (via ABC of Australia) ^
| 05/20/05
Posted on 05/19/2005 11:42:50 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; SunkenCiv; blam
To: TigerLikesRooster
Imagine how big the armadillo's car was then.
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posted on
05/19/2005 11:43:50 PM PDT
by
Termite_Commander
(Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Sounds like something out of Hunter Thompson's acid trips.
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posted on
05/19/2005 11:44:44 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("No point in mentioning those bats, I thought, the poor b****** will see them soon enough.")
To: TigerLikesRooster
To: Darksheare
Brother.... can you imagine if THIS
had been let loose in the barracks? ;-)
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posted on
05/19/2005 11:58:03 PM PDT
by
Darkchylde
(The Crazed Unknown Hermit)
To: All
I want to know how it was when it rolled up into a ball. AND what its vertical was.
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posted on
05/20/2005 12:04:00 AM PDT
by
Othniel
(Call that job satisfaction? Cuz I don't........)
To: martin_fierro
Hmmm. Use long tree limbs to flip it on its back. Once it has been turned turtle, build a fire around it, and cook it in its own bowl.
Crude, but my umpteenth great ancestors didn't need to worry about the HSUS or PETA nearly as much as they did about staying alive and keeping the belly full, so they could produce the culmination of creation, me.
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posted on
05/20/2005 12:28:36 AM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more work horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Can you imagine these things lying around dead in th middle of the road?
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posted on
05/20/2005 3:53:09 AM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
To: Paleo Conservative
Can you imagine these things lying around dead in th middle of the road?There's a dead glyptodon in the middle of the road and it's stinkin' to high, high Heaven....
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posted on
05/20/2005 3:58:37 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: TigerLikesRooster
Okay - What in the prehistoric environment made or allowed every thing to get so big?
To: TigerLikesRooster
I've run across several glyptodont skeletons in museums. The critters aren't the size of a VW, but they weigh about the same (800 kg).
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posted on
05/20/2005 4:09:49 AM PDT
by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: KSCITYBOY
Relatively speaking, these animals are not that big. We have larger critters even today. A lot of folks think, for example, that mammoths were huge, but they were actually about the size of a modern elephant (7 tonnes vs. 5-6 tonnes). Mastodons were a little smaller. The really big ground sloths massed about 7 tonnes. There were few, if any predators that could touch an animals this size until humans came along.
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posted on
05/20/2005 4:14:09 AM PDT
by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: TigerLikesRooster
armadillos the size of cars Simple. Bigger SUV's.
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posted on
05/20/2005 4:15:27 AM PDT
by
Nick Danger
(He's dead, Jim. But he's electable.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
They were carring out work INSIDE a private house and stumbled upon this surprise during the diggingHow'd they do THAT?
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posted on
05/20/2005 4:30:24 AM PDT
by
Carolinamom
(Dem & RINO senators have "eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner."---.Macbeth)
To: ApplegateRanch
The other less-than-white meat.
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posted on
05/20/2005 4:33:14 AM PDT
by
verity
(A mindset is an antidote to logic.)
To: Junior
I could see only the smaller animals surviving due to their ability to hide etc...if man were around at the time, but everything I've read says that man was not around to interact with prehistoric animals.
Yes we do have a few very large mammals around now but it would appear that at least sometime in the worlds history there were many very large animals around.
If it were and abundant food supply and a lack of a dominant predator then it would follow that the average man in a million years or so would be huge. Everything I hear about prehistoric times was very large including plant life. So I still wonder why things were so damn big.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Do you know why God made Armadillos?
So Texans could have Possum on the half-shell.
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posted on
05/20/2005 5:13:22 AM PDT
by
missnry
(The truth will set you free!)
To: Darkchylde
Giant armadillo loose in the barracks snuffling around the boots and shoving bunks out of the way, yes I can imagine it.
*yikes!*
If it could squeak and jump that would make the whole mental image much worse.
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posted on
05/20/2005 5:38:13 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("Wedgies and beatdowns to all who oppose my lawn gnome!" -Crazy despotic lawn gnome collector.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
05/20/2005 7:46:48 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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