The discovery of fossilized animal fossils dating back 600,000 years

Argentine archaeologists announced on April 17 that they have discovered the fossil of a family of Glyptodon (600-year-old teeth) dating back to 600,000 years, preserved almost intact in the city of San Pedro, the way of defense. Buenos Aires, 170 km northwest.

José Luis Aguilar, director of the Buenos Aires Provincial Paleontological Museum, said it was the third discovery of the Glyptodon fossil this month in Argentina, and confirmed the samples of ancient organisms died in the middle Pleistocene. , about 600,000 years ago.

Glyptodon species.(Source: Thevintagenews.com).

The location, bones and surrounding features of those giant fossils will help research experts recreate the scene that took place in prehistoric times in Buenos Aires.

Mr Aguilar said a Glyptodon is likely to have died of being stuck in the swamp while the other two ancient specimens were eaten by other animals, due to an intact 99% fossil and joint bones. Its all connected.

Glyptodon is the apricot species in the family Glyptodontidae . This is a large herbivore, the ancestor of Armadillo with a long evolutionary history, living in South America for 35 million years until extinction about 10,000 years ago.

Last month, archaeologists also discovered fossils of 50 million-year-old animals and plants at the foot of El Fresco in Puelen town, La Pampa province, more than 1,000km from Buenos Aires.

Earlier this month, the Argentinian archaeological team began restoring the fossil remains of a Glyptodon of the type of Doedicurus Clavicaudatus, the largest Glyptodon that lived 24,000 years ago, found in the area of ​​Mar Chiquita, 380km from Buenos Aires.

During the past decade, many fossils of Glyptodon, giant lazy (megatherium) and mastodon (mastodon) have been discovered in Argentina's Pampa province.