Weighing up to two tons and measuring over ten feet long, Glyptodon was one of the largest members of the extinct group known as glyptodonts. To put its size into perspective, a grown man could ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Now imagine one of those things the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Glyptodon was this enormous placental mammal that lived up until 10,000 years ago, when they were possibly hunted to extinction.

Pavel.Riha.CB / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0. Glyptodons were enormous armored mammals that became extinct around 10,000 years ago. Roughly the size of a VW Beetle, the glyptodon was well ...

And there are creatures native to Texas, including a glyptodon, an Ice Age, armadillo-type creature the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and one of the best preserved fin-backed reptiles that preceded ...

Among the first of the glyptodonts to become known to scientists was, not surprisingly, Glyptodon.It lacked the tail club seen among some of its relatives – instead possessing a short tail ...

A comparison between the complete skull of a Glyptodon and the skull fragments of a fetal specimen. (From Zurita et al, 2009) Early in 2009 a team of paleontologists led by Philip Gingerich ...