Armadillo Online! Welcome to the wonderful world of armadillos. Not your average speed bump on the information superhighway! What’s an armadillo? Armadillos are an amazing group of animals that originated in South America. Armadillos are mammals, just like you. Contrary to what you may have heard, the armadillo is neither a rodent nor a marsupial, and they are not related to the opossum any more than you are. There are twenty different species of armadillos. They belong to the order ...

ARMADILLOS The Giant Armadillo is the largest of the 20 armadillo species. The Giant Armadillo avoids the daytime heat by resting in a burrow but emerges at night to feed. Armadillos can roll themselves into a ball. The largest armadillo is about 1.2m long. The Giant Armadillo may weigh 50kg (110lb) but is both agile and graceful. The Furtive fairy is the most secretive of its family, the fairy armadillo, lives a mole like life. Back to Contents Page

Nine-Banded Armadillo Photo courtesy of Dr. Deborah Craton's Armadillo Burrow on the Web Fun Facts A distant counsin of the sloth and the anteater, the Nine-Banded Armadillo originated in South America. It immigrated to Texas by way of Mexico in the 19th. century. Its name comes from a Spanish word referring to its armor like covering. The shell is made of a bone like casing. In the Nine-Banded Armadillo (the only species of armadillo found in Texas), the armor consists of a large sh ...

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