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Jacksonville Journal-Courier on MSNRare armadillo sighting in Morgan County signals changing wildlifeA nine-banded armadillo was spotted in Morgan County for the first time this year, marking the animals continued habitat ...
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 Pittsburgh Zoo is welcoming three adorable baby nine-banded armadillo pups. The zoo on social media shared a video of ...
Rewriting the armadillo family tree: A new species, plus a name change for the state mammal of Texas
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 ...
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 ...
Mark S. Springer in the Department of Biology at the University of California, Riverside, gave a poster presentation on the nine-banded armadillo on Nov. 10 at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of ...
Rewriting the armadillo family tree: A new species, plus a name change for the state mammal of Texas
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 ...
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