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ALL naturalists will unite in congratulating Señor Florentino Ameghino on the remarkable discovery it has been his good fortune to make. It appears that several years ago he was informed by Ramon Lista—a traveller in Patagonia—of an encounter with a strange nocturnal beast, which, after being fired at and apparently hit, succeeded in escaping unharmed. It was described as like an Indian pangolin in size and form, but with the skin covered with greyish red hairs instead of scales; and from the rapidity with which it disappeared among the bushes, seemed to have been an animal of comparatively active habits. Till quite recently, nothing more had ever been heard of the strange creature seen by Lista in Santa Cruz; most of those to whom the story was narrated receiving it with more or less marked incredulity.
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A Living Representative of the Old Ground-Sloths. Nature 58, 547–548 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058547b0
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