I like Armadillos, we have a lot of them in my state, they are actually mammals
O really? What state do you live in?
I live in Arkansas, unfortunately you see more of them dead as roadkill then alive
That's typically how we see them in Florida as well. Are they nocturnal?
Yes they are and they are native to the Americas
So do they get hit because drivers can't see them? Or are the wandering during daylight and they themselves can't see because the light is so bright?
Usually they are hit at night
I wish something could be done to help them.
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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