Hi! I was just thinking about how cool and interesting armadillos ("little armoured ones" in Spanish!!) are. They have such cute little faces, too
Armadillos are cool and interesting. Adorable, even. How come they aren't seen as pets?
I am not sure! Perhaps they aren't suited to living indoors. I know they like to dig a lot. 
Hmm. If they like digging so much, why are they always ending up run over by vehicles?
They have terrible eyesight and rely more on their noses. Unfortunately they probably don't see cars very well, and their leathery shell doesn't do much to protect them from vehicles
Oh, wow. That is actually pretty interesting. You would think they would have developed a sense of warning towards vehicles or roads after their long history of being around.
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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