With its tiny, spiky body, the armadillo girdled lizard (Ouroborus cataphractus) looks like a baby dragon and has a defensive ...

A baby armadillo was about the size of a golf ball when it was born at the Toledo Zoo. Screengrab from Toledo Zoo video A tiny new arrival at an Ohio zoo was “the size of a golf ball” at birth.

Armadillo is a Spanish word meaning "little armored one." Though all of the approximately 20 species of armadillos have hard, protective outer-shell "armor," each species is a bit different. Compare, ...

A tiny new arrival at an Ohio zoo was “the size of a golf ball” at birth. Throughout the armadillo pup’s first three weeks of life, the zoo has kept track of the creature’s growth — which has been ...