Armadillos are from the new world Placental mammals with a leathery Armour shell.
What a coincidence!!!  I saw a dead Armadillo yesterday as i was driving home.  Apparently that hard shell wont protect them from cars.
Armiadillo happens to mean little armoured one in spanish.
I never knew where the name came from, that is interesting.  What do armadillos eat?
In portugese armadillo is known as a tatu which comes form the tupi language,
Hmm.  I have seen armadillos in the southern United States.  Are they found all over the world?  What do they eat?
-rabbit": "āyōtl" (turtle) and "tōchtli" (rabbit). The Portuguese word for "armadillo" is "tatu" which derives from the Tupi language. Similar names are also found in other, especially European, languages.
Classification.
Family Dasypodidae
- Subfamily Dasypodinae
- Genus "Dasypus"
- Nine-banded armadillo or long-nosed armadillo, "Dasypus novemcinctus"
- Seven-banded armadillo, "Dasypus septemcinctus"
- Southern long-nosed armadillo,
Armadillo
Armadillos (from Spanish "little armoured one") are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata. The Chlamyphoridae and Dasypodidae are the only surviving families in the order, which is part of the superorder Xenarthra, along with the anteaters and sloths. Nine extinct genera and 21 extant species of armadillo have been described, some of which are distinguished by the number of bands on their armour. All species are native to the Americas, where they inhabit a variety of different environments. 
Armadillos are characterized by a