| The 5-foot-tall, almost 1ton glyptodont looks like a rat covered in armor. |
| The complete fossil skeleton of a Glyptodont shows how this car-sized armadillo relative was covered with a thick, bony shell to protect itself from large predators. |
| Glyptodont THESE shell-shockers were the size of a VW Beetle and looked very much like our modern day armadillos. |
| Glyptodont THESE shell-shockers were the size of a VWBeetle and looked very much like our modern day armadillos. |
| These early ankylosaur or glyptodont analogues often had widely-flared skulls, ornamented with irregular blobs of bone, looking like half-melted wax. |
| The armadillo-like glyptodont, for example, was the size of a small car, covered in plates of body armor, and equipped with a hefty tail club. |
