I recently saw an armadillo scurrying around outside my house. 
Those critters are interesting to watch! The word armadillo means "little armoured one" in Spanis
That is a really cute meaning for the name, and totally makes sense. Do you know what they eat? I'm hoping it'll stick around!
I am not sure I bet it depends upon their environment. All species are native to the Americas
Where are they the most prominent? It was my first time seeing one here.
They are definitely cute. There are similar names of animals that are also found in Europe
Oh really? What are the animals in Europe that are similar?
diverged some 35 million years ago, much more recently than previously assumed.
Distribution.
Like all of the Xenarthra lineages, armadillos originated in South America. Due to the continent's former isolation, they were confined there for most of the Cenozoic. The recent formation of the Isthmus of Panama allowed a few members of the family to migrate northward into southern North America by the early Pleistocene, as part of the Great American Interchange. (Some of their much larger cingulate relatives, the pampatheres and chlamyphorid glyptodonts, made
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