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

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 | Mail Online: "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."