I n the realm of quirky food names, armadillo eggs must be in the top five. First of all, armadillos are mammals and don't lay eggs; and if they did, who would even think of eating them? Turns out ...

A little over half of their 80 total armadillo samples came from dried samples–mostly museum specimens. But 34 samples were collected fresh in the field, “mostly from roadkill,” says Delsuc.

“It has a shell on its back similar to armadillos,” says Bruno Borsoni, a master’s student in evolutionary biology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. In fact, the extinct species' ...