Texans have a soft spot for armadillos. The scrappy, scaly mammal adorns countless art prints, bumper stickers, and T-shirts. On Etsy, you can buy solid-gold armadillo earrings ($850) or a vintage ...

Pink fairy armadillos — the smallest species of armadillo — have a unique double skin, scientists have revealed. In a new study, published Dec. 19, 2023 in the Journal of Zoology, researchers studied ...

A video of a person holding an armadillo inside a Statesboro calzone restaurant has gone viral, garnering nearly 50,000 likes and nearly 400,000 views on TikTok. The video shows the person carrying ...

Feb. 4—They have little to no hair, suffer from poor eyesight and struggle when trying to defend themselves. What armadillos do have is plenty of heart. They just keep moving and adapting. That's the ...

Indiana now has breeding populations of armadillos. According to a recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), armadillos have colonized much of southeastern Indiana and are spreading north and ...

HAMPTON ROADS, VA—He is the star of the show; Vigo the Armadillo is one of the three-banded armadillos at The Virginia Zoo. Vigo was very friendly while visiting the Coast Live Studio. Our guests ...

The Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) was officially adopted as the state small mammal of Texas in 1995. Dasypus translates from Latin and Greek words referring to ‘hairy feet’ and/or ‘hare ...

With its tiny, spiky body, the armadillo girdled lizard (Ouroborus cataphractus) looks like a baby dragon and has a defensive trick that looks straight out of a cartoon. As seen in this Instagram ...

Meerkat Mel from Silly Safaris joined us for another exciting WILD WEDNESDAY! This time, Mel brought in three different types of armadillos to show us how they vary in size, location, and skills. The ...

Pink fairy armadillos, which are just 6 inches long, appear to have evolved a strange double skin millions of years ago as they moved underground in response to the climate becoming more arid. When ...