While transporting his young cattle, Juan de Dios Sota, an Argentine farmer, made a discovery of a lifetime. He encounters two giant-sized tatu right at his feet, they are called Glyptodon. After he called in archaeologists to help him uncover what the discovery was, they discovered two more fossils in addition to the two the farmer had reported.

According to official reports, they have been there for more than 20,000 years, but they are covered by the river that has been wiped out by recent droughts. Since they were all spotted side by side, experts claim that they are both members of the same family or that they are most likely heading to the same location, which is supported by the fact that all of them are part of the same family. They both looked down in the same direction.

These Glyptodons once roamed our planet about 30 million years ago but they all went extinct about 10,000 years ago mainly because of the raptor known as the Terror Bird and funny, the nest our first.

Humans used to hunt them a lot, mainly because their 5-foot-tall shells can act as an extremely good defense when they rest. These tatu were extremely tough, their shells were sturdy enough to block a modern bullet, and even their least protected areas have layers of bones called osteoderms that help protect them from damage. any ordinary blunt blow.

The body shell alone is up to 5 feet long and up to 2 inches thick. It uses its tail as a weapon – like a baton – as the tail has a bony knob at the end that sometimes has spikes (pictured)

A separate fossil shell was discovered in 2015 by another farmer in Argentina (pictured). A 3-foot-long shell discovered on a riverbank near a local farm may be from a glyptodont – a giant prehistoric tatu

Glyptodonts are ancestors of the modern tatu (pictured), which can be found throughout South America

The relatively gentle giants are herbivores and have several cheek teeth to effectively crush hardy plants.

Glyptodonts roamed South America, gradually spreading northward over millions of years, and finally becoming extinct 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age.

Other megafauna such as giant ground sloths and pamatheres – another armored tatu-like animal – were extinct by this time.