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To: David Lawrence who wrote (10799)	12/16/1997 6:44:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Famous Amos just made you toss your cookies? There was something very unappealing about the name.... o~~~ O

To: David Lawrence who wrote (10799)	12/16/1997 11:02:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Not everything is bigger in Texas: Giant armadillos once roamed Florida MIAMI (Reuters) -- Long before the first northerners roared down its highways in oversize convertibles, Florida's landscape was dotted with another sort of giant -- refrigerator-size armadillos. University of Florida researchers said Tuesday they had confirmed that a skull dug up in a central Florida limestone quarry this fall belonged to a 600-pound , 6-foot armadillo, which made its home in the state 10,000 years ago. ''The skull belonged to one of two species of giant armadillo that lived in Florida during the Pleistocene Epoch, and its unusually good preservation makes it one of only a handful of its kind in the United States,'' said Russ McCarty, a senior biological scientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who unearthed the skull. Researchers said the prehistoric armadillos, known as Holmesina septentrionalis, like their smaller modern counterparts, spread to what now is Florida from South America. Ground sloths, tapirs and other animals followed the same route, McCarty said. While modern armadillos lived on termites, ants and beetles, the ancient ones must have eaten something more substantial. McCarty said he hoped that studying the skull would yield clues such as traces of pollen that could reveal what the creatures ate. ''Unless there were two-pound bugs and foot-long slugs, I don't know,'' he told Reuters. ''They were certainly not carnivores. ... They might have gone to a more vegetarian diet.'' McCarty said the armadillo skull, found in September in a limestone quarry west of Gainesville, was the best of its type found in Florida. Researchers say the giant armadillos roamed Florida at the end of the Pleistocene Age, along with mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths, all of which became extinct with the massive climate change that occurred at the end of the ice age. Giant armadillos had another companion as well, he noted: humans are known to have been living in the area at the same time. ''By probably 11 or 12,000 years ago, we know that humans were already in Florida. They probably encountered these,'' McCarty said. o~~~ O