Glyptodon Scute - SOLD 2.58" decade-2024 (Image Credit: Olivier Goujon /

(Image Credit: Olivier Goujon / Le Pictorium)

Cyrus Field and the USS Niagara reached Trinity Bay

Natural sapphire can exhibit asterism or "stars" on surfaces of stones with round-cut surfaces

45" fossil plant from the genus Lobatopteris that was recovered from a coal bed in Poland

10mm lava rock beads

Glyptodon Scute - SOLD 2.58" decade-2024 (Image Credit: Olivier Goujon /Glyptodons were heavily armored mammals originating in the Pliocene Epoch three million years ago. With their interlocked osteoderms forming a massive shell, plus a spiked tail for use in combat, Glyptodons flourished across the Americas up until just 10,000 years ago when they were hunted by humans migrating into the continents. This specimen is a Glyptodon scute measuring 2. 58". Their hexagonal patterning allowed these osteoderms to interlock