Articles for tag: Armadillos Expanding, Climate Change and Animals, Northward Animal Movement, Wildlife Behavior Change, wildlife migration

brown snail on green grass during daytime

Armadillos Expanding Their Range Northward

Suhail Ahmed

On moonlit roads across the central United States, a small armored shape now appears where it once didn’t belong. The nine-banded armadillo, a heat-loving drifter from the south, is pushing into cooler counties and surprising residents who wake to find neat, conical divots peppering lawns. This quiet advance is more than a quirky wildlife story; ...

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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 ...

Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Nights Return

Suhail Ahmed

Every May and June, under the soft glow of the moon, the Delaware Bay transforms into a living stage for one of the world’s oldest natural spectacles. Thousands of horseshoe crabs emerge from the Atlantic’s shallow waters, their prehistoric shells glistening in the surf, to spawn on sandy shores—a ritual unchanged for over 450 million ...