Articles for tag: Animal Adaptation, Armadillos in Texas, Species Expansion, Texas wildlife, wildlife migration

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Texas Armadillos Are Marching North – Here’s Why

Suhail Ahmed

The rustle you hear in the midnight grass is not your imagination – it’s a small armor-clad excavator testing a new frontier. Across the southern United States, nine-banded armadillos are inching into territories where winter once kept them out. Scientists are watching the line creep northward as milder cold snaps, greener suburbs, and abundant insects ...