It Required Special Care
A shell weighed around a thousand pounds. They are big and had to be handled with great care. The team could not hold in their excitement about the find. field paleontologist called Ricardo Bonini said, “These types of cases, in which several individuals appear together who died in the same circumstances, are truly exceptional and will undoubtedly give us a lot of information about these enigmatic animals and will allow us to test various hypotheses that we have been handling in recent years.”
It Required Special Care
Why It Was So Special
It was only natural for them to assume that they had stumbled upon a family since there were four of them. The tests would be interesting should this hold water. Scientists had never before found a family, so it was going to give them a lot of valuable data. It is even possible that they would discover a new species of the animals. There were several other things that they hoped to learn about the glyptodon.
Why It Was So Special