The nine-banded armadillo is expanding its territory into parts of the country it has never been seen in before, taking everyone from wildlife experts to homeowners to pest and wildlife control ...

A group of armadillos originally thought to be a single species may actually be four separate species, research has found. The nine-banded armadillo, the official state small mammal of Texas, may in ...

Armadillos form part of the superorder Xenarthra along with anteaters and sloths. There are 21 extant species of armadillo, some of which are distinguished by the number of bands on their armor. ...

Researchers in France and Chicago have discovered that the armadillo native to Texas and other parts of North America is actually its own species. The study, published last summer in Systematic ...

Nine-banded armadillos are coming to a Midwestern woodlot and pasture near you—or perhaps they already have. As climate change has created a trend of milder winters, the leathery little relatives of ...

INDIANAPOLIS — 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 ...