Fishermen stumble upon a 10,000-year-old giant shell in Argentina

This is the second gigantic shell of an extinct species found near Buenos Aires, Argentina in the past two years.

According to the Mirror, the shell belongs to a creature called glyptodon , which belongs to a shellfish that lived 10,000 years ago. An Argentinian fisherman accidentally found the shell of Ezeiza, Buenos Aires on September 30.

The giant carapace of mammals dates back 10,000 years.

Imanol Ojeda said he was going fishing when he found a shell beneath the sand. Ojeda uses a knife to clean the sand from the shell.

Friend Rodolfo Cuenca said it was a very valuable historical thing. This makes Ojede feel ' proud' . Despite being around more than 10,000 years ago, the case is still 98% intact, according to the Mirror.

Glyptodon is a prehistoric ancestor of today's apricot mammals. They used to live everywhere along the Latin American nation.

Some large apricot animals such as cars today are up to 3m long.'The creature has thick armor, made of bones that grow inside the skin,' says the Museum of Natural History in the United States.

There are very heavy shells, up to 1,100kg, accounting for 20% of the body weight of this creature. The Glyptodon became extinct at the end of the Ice Age, 10,000 years ago.

 

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