[post_page_title]A smaller shell [/post_page_title]
But the skeptics didn’t stop there. Over the course of their investigations, they noted that the shell was significantly smaller than images and replicas they had previously seen. This led them to believe that Jose had made the whole thing up and staged the discovery.
Once again, the scientists rushed to his aid and quashed the critics. He believed that the shell belonged to a young glyptodon – one that had not fully grown. Because of this, the shell was smaller.