A passer-by on Christmas Day found a metre-long shell on a riverbank in Argentina, which may be from a glyptodont, a kind of giant prehistoric armadillo (GMA News Online, 30 December 2015). A local man thought the black scaly shell was a dinosaur egg when he saw it lying in the mud, his wife Reina Coronel told Agence France-Presse. Her husband Jose Antonio Nievas found the shell beside a stream at their farm in Carlos Spegazzini, about 40 kilometres south of the capital Buenos Aires. 'My husband went out to the car and when he came back he said, 'Hey, I just found an egg that looks like it came from a dinosaur,' she said.
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机译：圣诞节那天，一个路人在阿根廷河岸发现了一米长的贝壳，可能是来自一种巨大的史前犰狳glyptodont（GMA新闻在线，2015年12月30日）。他的妻子雷纳·科罗内尔（Reina Coronel）告诉法新社，当地人认为黑鳞状壳躺在泥里时是恐龙蛋。她的丈夫何塞·安东尼奥·涅瓦斯（Jose Antonio Nievas）在首都布宜诺斯艾利斯以南约40公里处的卡洛斯·斯佩加西尼（Carlos Spegazzini）的农场的一条小溪旁发现了贝壳。她说：“我丈夫出去上车，当他回来时，他说：'嘿，我刚刚发现了一个看起来像是恐龙的蛋。”
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