The Pittsburgh Zoo is welcoming three adorable baby nine-banded armadillo pups. The zoo on social media shared a video of ...

The nine-banded armadillo, the official state small mammal of Texas, may in fact be made up of four distinct species, one of which is new to science, according to a new paper in the journal ...

The nine-banded armadillo, which ranges all the way from Argentina to Nebraska, is actually four separate species. One of the species, the Guianan long-nosed armadillo, is new to science.

There are around 20 species of armadillo, but only the nine-banded armadillo is found in the U.S. This post from rwpzoo shares two of the four nine-banded armadillo pups that mom, Patsy ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The nine-banded armadillo is a scavenger, and it has followed trails of ants and along the side of roads all the way here to East Tennessee. Sarah Glass is the Curator of ...

One of the species sticks with the name and description of the classic nine-banded armadillo. The fourth represents a previously undescribed species (the first within armadillos in 30 years).

The largest species, appropriately called the giant armadillo, averages five feet long and 60 pounds ― however, one captive specimen has been measured at 180 pounds. The nine-banded armadillo ...

But a paper published in June detailed how recent DNA sampling shows that what we’ve long known as the nine-banded armadillo is actually four distinct species. This means that armadillo biology ...

For example, the pink fairy armadillo is mostly furry with a little shell, while the nine-banded armadillo appears bald. The species that appear bald typically have wiry hairs on the sides and the ...

The nine-banded armadillo has long been considered the most widespread, ranging from the central United States to Argentina. However, a new study published in Systematic Biology used DNA and ...