These creatures lumbered around on stubby legs and they had short necks with a blunt head. They did not have the spiked, clubbed tail of their close relative Doedicurus, but once they were tucked inside their armored carapace, they were basically immune from predation – except from humans, of course. For any other predator to have a meal of Glyptodon, it would have had to somehow tip the one-tonner over to get to it's soft belly.
Glyptodon survived well into early historical times and then…enter the human - as with so many other extinct species. This slow-moving armadillo was hunted to extinction by the earliest human settlers of South America. Of course they had a feast on the vast amount of meat one such a creature can offer, but there is evidence that they also used it's car-like shell as a shelter against rain and snow!
Due to over-hunting the Glyptodon became extinct about 10,000 years ago.
