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Shuffling in like the armoured tank it is, is our next beast.

Doedicurus.

Doedicurus isn’t a dinosaur at all, but a glyptodont, an ancient cousin of giant armadillo like animals. Doedicurus is actually the largest species of glyptodont, the size of a car, and the last too, going extinct near the end of the Last Ice Age around 11,000 BCE. Its spiked tail club was used primarily in fights between individuals of its own species and not against predators, unlike the Ankylosaur dinosaurs, due to the fact that its field of vision was very poor and that its fossils of the shell have been found with fracture marks made by a force very close to that of the muscles their tails could enforce. Living in South America during the Last Ice Age, it is very plausible that our first South American ancestors enxountered this large herbivorous tank.

Here, in the sparse svrub of the dry season, a small troop of Doedicurus scrouge for anything edible in the heat of the day.