Between 1831 and 1836, while traveling on the
Galapagos Islands, English naturalist
Charles Darwin, noted resemblances between fossil collections he had recently made of extinct
glyptodons and nearby living
armadillos, an animal which he had never seen before. The similarities between these two unusually scaly animals and their similarly restricted geographic distribution provided Darwin with a clue that helped him develop his theory of how evolution occurs.[1]
Between 1831 and 1836, while traveling on the
Galapagos Islands, English naturalist
Charles Darwin, noted resemblances between fossil collections he had recently made of extinct
glyptodons and nearby living
armadillos, an animal which he had never seen before. The similarities between these two unusually scaly animals and their similarly restricted geographic distribution provided Darwin with a clue that helped him develop his theory of how evolution occurs.[1]