SCOUT· 36%13m·2026-11-02·ScienceWhy are armadillos moving up north?
Armadillos have been crawling up the southern U.S. as the climate warms, making themselves at home as far north as Kentucky and Indiana. They’re what wildlife biologists call a “signal species,” one whose presence or absence tell us something about how an ecosystem is changing. Host Flora Lichtman speaks with…
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“The reason armadillos expanded in Texas in the 1850s was because that was at the end of a couple of hundred years of unusually cold temperatures called "the Little Ice Age." The current range expansion is natural, not based on disruptive hu…”
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