Ancient humans hunted the Glyptodon, a massive armadillo, …
2017年5月26日 · Known as the Glyptodon, the massive armadillo lived during the Pleistocene epoch, which meant it co-existed with early humans. Those humans made the Glyptodon a hunting target, to its misfortune.
Giant glyptodont armadillos may have been hunted by early South ...
2022年11月25日 · A chink in the armour of giant South American armadillos may have left them vulnerable to human hunting. Four skulls of these megaherbivores, known as glyptodonts, have been found with similar fractures on the upper surface where their …
Damaged glyptodontid skulls from Late Pleistocene sites of …
2022年6月16日 · We hypothesize that the unique breakage pattern found on four archaeological glyptodont specimens at these sites represent an unreported human hunting technique involving slamming heavy instruments like stone choppers or wooden clubs on the head.
Glyptodon Facts, Habitat, Diet, Fossils, Pictures - Extinct Animals
2022年3月28日 · Their primary reason to go extinct was due to hunting by the humans that would usually kill them for food and collect their carapace to use as shelters. The carapace of the creature was so hard that it was almost impossible for the carnivores to kill or eat them unless they would turn them over.
Glyptodon: The Prehistoric Armadillo That Was The Size Of A Car
2018年6月21日 · See the glyptodon, the armadillo-like creature so large that early humans would hunt it and use its empty shell as a shelter. One of the only things strong enough to break the glyptodon's armor-like shell was the clubbed tail of another glyptodon.
Glyptodon - Wikipedia
Glyptodon, along with all other glyptodonts, became extinct at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12,000 as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions, along with most large mammals in the Americas. Evidence of hunting of glyptodonts by recently arrived Paleoindians suggests that humans may have been a causal factor in the extinctions.
(PDF) Damaged glyptodontid skulls from Late Pleistocene sites of ...
2022年12月1日 · Here we report novel visual and CT scanning analysis of six glyptodont skulls of Glyptotherium cf. cylindricum from these sites, of which four exhibit distinct and similar patterns of breakages in...
A new study has just detailed the report of possible Glyptodont hunting …
2022年6月23日 · A new study has just detailed the report of possible Glyptodont hunting by humans in Venezuela. 6 skulls (belonging to Glyptotherium) were analyzed from 2 sites in Northwestern Venezuela and 4 specimens showed similar breaks in regions of the head which had thinner head shield covering. Here's the open-access paper.
Glyptodon - It's Nature
2010年3月22日 · Another strain on the population would have been hunting as its thought humans hunted these great beats for food and often used their shells for shelter. This hunting coupled with thinning out of the species was likely detrimental to the native population.
Glyptodont - Wikipedia
The first is the traditional Glyptodontinae, which is includes the well known genera of Glyptodon and Glyptotherium, which probably originated in Northern South America, while the second is the unnamed "Austral clade", containing the majority of glyptodont diversity, which as the name suggests probably originated in Southern South America. [8]
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