New Family Posted: The Armadillos!!!

I have just completed another family group, the armadillos of tomorrow. I didn't color these pics, I just didn't feel like it. Someday maybe. Sometimes I just don't feel like coloring the pics so I don't. Anyway, I was watching Jurassic Fight Club last night on the History Channel, and they were displaying a dinosaur called Gastonia. This is a small, squat ankylosaur with a scissors-tail. I saw that and I thought "Well, I have an armadillo that has that very same feature for my Metazoica project!!" So that is what led me to do this project. Funny thing I thought up Grammoclavia back in 1995, and it is the armadillo that has the same chainsaw tail Gastonia does! And until last night I had never even heard of Gastonia! Amazing! Grammoclavia also is equipped with a club-tipped tail. So it is double armed. It is perfect for this world dominated by Deinognathids and other large predators such as them. Though in the picture on the site, I depict Grammoclavia battling with a Cynocephalogale mongoose, another predator of their's.

I included all 4 genera I predict will be around during the Metazoic. This is a first! Including a rather tiny, underground-dwelling armadillo that sort of more resembles an armored rabbit that I called Thoracolagus. Anyway, the armadillos can be viewed at this address: http://www.metazoica.com/armadillos.html. Enjoy them! Any comments are welcomed.

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