The world is full of surprises and there are things that are still waiting to be found and that could change history in seconds. Throughout the world, ordinary people hint at countless discoveries from valuable ancient artifacts to objects that at first seem to be of little importance, and then rewrite history. The story of Josef Anton Nievas is about it.

José Antonio Nievas - an Argentine farmer - tripped over an object that at first seemed like a massive stone or a huge dinosaur egg. To the surprise of the discoverer, the object was not a stone or a massive dinosaur egg, but the carapace of an ancient animal that grew to the size of a small car. Reina Coronel, the wife of Josef Antonio Nievas, told AFP, "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. "We all laughed because we thought it was a joke."

Nievas found a massive carapace, partly covered with mud, and decided to clean it. The news of the discovery spread rapidly throughout the world and attracted the interest of many experts who came to the conclusion that the object that Mr. Nievas found was most likely a glyptodonta carapace. "There's no doubt it looks like a glyptodont," said paleontologist Alejandro Kramarz of the Bernadino Rivadavia Museum of Natural Science. "The animal became extinct thousands of years ago and it's really common to find their fossils in the area," he told AFP.

Glyptodonts are the forerunners of modern Armadillos. These ancient animals were of great growth and had a carapace that could easily weigh up to one ton. According to Earth Touch News, these strange mammals developed in South America more than 18 millions of years ago when the continent became an island separate from other terrain. This isolation has led to the development not only of glyptodontes but also of other specialties such as giant lenochodi, bloodthirsty birds and others. These ancient animals lived in South America for tens of millions of years.

Interestingly, experts estimate that the carapace found by Mr Nievas was relatively young, which is quite surprising, with the approximate age of 10000 years. The Glyptodonts disappeared at the end of the last ice age, along with a large number of other megafauna species, including pampas, giant soil sloths, and Macrauchenia. Finding such an old shell is certainly not a common discovery.