Armadillos Everywhere All At Once

Get to know your new, heavily armored neighbors before they give you the skin-wasting disease formerly known as leprosy.

FOR THOSE WHO WORRY that loss of habitat, climate change, and Ginni Thomas are causing new waves of extinction, I have glad tidings: Armadillos are doing just fine. In fact, since crossing the Rio Grande in the 1850s, they’ve been expanding their territory steadily northward in the U.S., reaching all the way to Tennessee and North Carolina in the 1990s.…