The Campravan Armadillo is designed as a full, hybrid mobile home for true adventurers, but in a very compact form factor with serious off-road capabilities ...

One animal in Australia is so difficult to spot it has been named the hidden dragon lizard. The reptile, which blends perfectly into the reddish orange terrain, avoided documented sightings for years.

Did you know that country music star Willie Nelson helped bring the Texas Roadhouse mascot to life? Here's how Willie Nelson got involved with the steakhouse.

The group began with the assumption that when it comes to the rest behavior of a rolling irregularly shaped rigid body—such as the pig-shaped "dice" from the commercial game Pass the Pigs —the ...

Imagine wandering through a prehistoric landscape, only to stumble upon a creature as big as a Volkswagen Beetle, covered in ...

James Coffey, wildlife technician at Iowa DNR, has kept track of armadillo sightings in the state since 2016. He says this isn't a complete understanding of armadillos in Iowa, but it's what has ...

Eighth, body temperature is generally low, about 91 to 97 degrees fahrenheit. Metabolic rates are only 40 to 60 percent of what would be expected by other placental mammals of equal mass.

Researchers have found evidence of butchery marks on the back of an ancient armadillo-like animal, suggesting humans were in South America 20,000 years ago -- earlier than many researchers thought.

PLOS. "Evidence for butchery of giant armadillo-like mammals in Argentina 21,000 years ago." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 17 July 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 07 / 240717162440.htm>.

When threatened, the armadillo usually runs, digs and presses its body into the dirt to prevent getting flipped over. The three-banded armadillo is the only species that can roll into a ball for ...

If digging up an armadillo burrow, consider wearing a face mask, Campos Krauer said. Don’t play with or eat the animals, added John Spencer, a scientist at Colorado State who studies leprosy ...

In an open-air barn at the edge of the University of Florida in Gainesville, veterinarian Juan Campos Krauer examines a dead armadillo’s footpads and ears for signs of infection. Its claws are curled ...