Armadillos as big as cars, crocodiles bigger than buses, six-ton mastodons and sabre-toothed tigers
Armadillos as big as cars, crocodiles bigger than buses, six-ton mastodons and sabre-toothed tigers once shared the Earth with man in Latin America, scientists believe
Now researchers are hunting for evidence that man lived among the megafauna that walked the Earth thousands of years ago
By Damien Gayle
PUBLISHED: 13:03 EST, 31 August 2013 | UPDATED: 13:39 EST, 31 August 2013
An armadillo the size of a Volkswagen, a crocodile bigger than a bus, a six-ton mastodon and a sabre-toothed tiger walked the earth in prehistoric Latin America, palaeontologists believe.
Traces of the fearsome creatures have been found in Venezuela, where oil companies' surveys of the fossil fuel-rich soil have unearthed a wealth of fossils.
Remnants kept by the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research date from 14,000 to 370million years ago, presenting the tantalising prospect that man once hunted for the megafauna
Ascania Rincon, head of the institute's Laboratory of Palaeontology, told AFP: 'We are close, you have to keep kicking the area (exploring). Already we have found spearheads.
'What's lacking is the reliable indication that man hunted the megafauna we are finding. And lacking are human fossils.'
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