@@grimm3287 I have a picture of my friend holding up a dead armadillo in Tennessee when we were driving thru so I have PROOF!!! We live in Delaware and he used a paper towel to protect his hand, I know they carry diseases.... just saying. I KNOW they are in Tennessee!
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Absolutely excellent video. This is a family I had little knowledge of. Love the videos of the unique South American fauna.
Moth Light Media As a South American I have to tell you that I loved the video, but i saw an error in it. I’ve seen armadillos in the Southern Patagonia with my own eyes. They still live in the cold enviorment surrounding the Magellan Strait. The species Ive seen is called Zaedyus pichiy. Great work anyway!
Oh I just read that they didnt live there before the 70’s when human infrastructure was made. They literally migrated south crossing rivers by walking on bridges. So funny and interesting at the same time!
3:41 I like that you point out pretty much the initial key to evolution, that is random mutations popping up periodically that get selected for by a population of animals and even plants. Basically mutations can either prove beneficial, impair or even not effect the overall survival of an organism which must not only live long enough to reproduce but reproduce more often for these traits, these mutations to be passed on to future generations. It's how things can change overtime, because ALL lifeforms are constantly mutating, it's just at a very slow rate and an accumulation of many, MANY subtle changes over the eons that eventually leads to larger and stranger, more noticable adaptations. The only reason why animal species are seemingly so uniform and distinct in body shapes and traits is because these things get selected for by the struggle for survival, meaning that things that produced the best, long term results stuck around throughout the generations while things that didn't will either disappear or only rarely pop up, negative or neutral mutations alike. But what determines good or bad or benign mutations is honestly up to circumstances like whether, geography, food availability, competition, predator to prey relationships and etc.
There is a mistake; there are a fairy amount of cold-adapted armadillos today. At least here in Argentina there are several species living in Patagonia. And all the species living in the high altitudes are very cold resistant
We still have many species of armadillos down here in Uruguay, that map is inaccurate. There's also a fossil found here of a 'missing link' it is an armadillo shell that is only divided in two pieces while modern species have up to nine folds.
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6:40 Idk about that habitat range, in Argentina to my knowledge at least we have armadillos(quirquinchos) and fairy armadillos(pichiciego) as far south as the provinces of Mendoza and Neuquen and it gets very cold in desert regions. Great videos btw!
@@Superbug-tf8zy To be fair that range was probably a generalization, but in winter it's not uncommon for puddles to freeze over at night and to get one day a year that it snows which could be more if it wasn't a desert.
Congratulations for this video! Armadillos are native here in Brazil and have already been widely consumed as game meat, which fortunately is quite rare today. But one of them has always been spared. Euphractus sexcinctus, known here as the tatu-peba (smelly armadillo, in guarani language), is reputed to eat dead people in cemeteries and is therefore considered disgusting. Truth or lie, lucky him! ...
about ten years ago I got to spend some time in the Summertown TN area. People told me the armadillos were recent arrivals, but appreciated because they eat Fire Ants, another recent immigrant. So the Xenarthrans continue succeeding.
The only trait that can prevent a species from going extinct now is by evoking cuteness or awe in humans. Either those two or tasting delicious and being easy to keep as livestock. The others are on a clock. All of them.
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It's been within my lifetime that I saw armadillos migrate into my own back yard, and I have got to say they have occupied a niche I didn't even realize was empty. I love those little precious lepers!
Thinking about the one with horns on its snout, perhaps they were used to aid in digging and burrowing? Armadillos where I live can dig and burrow with their claws, but I imagine that in a harder, rockier terrain, horns might also have helped with this. Possibly not, they may have been a purely defensive adaptation, but it might have helped them dig for food or something similar.
Possibly, maybe that's why the horned gopher was horned as well. I suppose the problem is there are no animals that do that today so it's difficult to make a comparison
@@mothlightmedia1936 well, pigs, they have defenses which are somewhat similar to horns and are amazing diggers. Those horns could have been used to impress others, or to fight, while they could still use their heads to dig
@@mothlightmedia1936 As a human who's dug a lot of holes in rocky terrain, I can say it's hard to fathom a digging animal having those horns and not using them to dig. If I have to dig a hole in poor ground, I take 4-8 different hand tools and anticipate possibly having to improvise a couple more. I can definitely see situations where those horns would be very useful and the claws alone would fail and have to go around or try another spot. Also, if you watch un-horned mammals digging, they do typically use their noses a lot, especially to manipulate rocks. It's easy to see how once the adaptation began to appear, it would have had an immediate use and benefit without any behavioural change, even just as a couple of hard patches on the snout, without the later benefits of being tools in themselves, so I'd expect it to have been pretty strongly selected for.
Definitely the creepiest thing I ever saw involving giant armadillos was a 5-part special on animals in North America during the Ice Age. They had a jaguar sitting in front of an adult Doedicarus, chewing it's face off while it stood there. It's scary seeing a large cat casually using a rhino-sized animal's face as a chew toy, but worse when they show the skull afterwards with huge gouges directly where the brain was.
My favorite part in all of these videos is that collective "oh shit" moment, experienced by all of the animal kingdom when we arrived at the scene 10000 years ago, sharpening a spear and chewing bubblegum
Ayyye I totally know where the photo for the background of the armadillo at 3:10 is from. I'm 100% sure that's the santa catalina mountains north of tucson az cuz I can see window rock peak. Wouldn't be surprised if it was taken in the sabino canyon area.
I know they're not closely related, but... maybe cover the most similar animal to armadillos by way of convergent evolution, pangolins? Love those cute guys.
OH MY GOD. I live in the States and I've always thought all armadillos are like cat sized. The armadillo is a staple of Texas/western culture and I just figured there was only the one. I can't believe they can be so massive in different places. When you casually said armadillos are dog sized I had to look it up myself and sure enough they can be so big. Insane.
Great video, but I must correct something; there ARE armadillos living on cold places, like the patagonian hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus) from southern Chile and Argentina.
Armadillos are now found in N Tennessee, won't be long till found in Kentucky. And has anyone else noted the fact that Armadillos, Skunks and Possums all apparently went to the same Road Crossing School
The big club on the tail would have been a perfect weapon against the terror birds legs. A good leg sweep would disable and cripple the big birds, I doubt the bigs birds would mess with such a formidable animal.
Awesome video! Just a small note, I found it confusing that you seemed to refer to North America simply as “America”. I am from outside America so kept misinterpreting your meaning as in my country “America” is a catch all for both south and North America. It might be less confusing for other viewers if you specified. eg. “Found throughout NORTH America and Mexico” vs “found throughout America and Mexico.”
Only shelled mammal? With a strict def of shell? If armadillos don't meet the strict def of shell, like a snail or turtle, then I suppose you could also claim pangolins as another mammal that sort of has a shell. Both "shells" are segmented, in different ways. One shell is banded, the other shell is scaled. Banded armor vs scale armor. Similar results. Both curl into a defensive ball.
I think it's less that armor genes are rare, and more that no amount of armor is as protective as not being hit in the first place, so speed and camouflage are positively selected for over shielding.
I love it when watching theses types of videos and they say “fairly recently” “as recently as” and it’s 500million+ years ago. Ah yes last month, in earth’s life time.
I wonder if they developed the armor sorta like Pangolins but as one solid plate instead of the scaled armor like them. As for how they competed with the other large herbivores I'd guess that they were more ground browsers and ate shrubs, glasses, or may have been omnivores than purely herbivores. Other large herbivores might have grazed other plants or trees. I would say they had a niche very similar to ankylosaurs of being slow shorter heavily armored grazers.
Wilfred Darr There’s an infamous paleoart of a stegosaur attempting to mount a prosauropod, and it shows what a stegosaurus penis might have looked like. (It’s probably based of accounts of giraffes attempting to mount a donkey at a zoo).
Superb work, as usual! If macro-euphractys was a predator-as its sharp teeth in the discovered jawbone would suggest-might this indicate that at least *some* prehistoric xenarthrans had a higher metabolic rate, so that they would have a better chance at chasing down prey? I understand that they *could*-as the video said-have been part-scavengers and part-burrowing, cannibalistic predators...Yet is it at least possible that *some* past groups of xenarthrans diverged from the main evolutionary path of their family (and developed faster metabolic rates to aid in the development of a predatory lifestyle? After all, *most* sharks are cold-blooded, yet *a few species* (such as carcharodon carcarias (great whites) have developed warm bloodedness to be able to tolerate the cold seas that are the habitat of their favourite, fat-and-blubber-rich prey animals: seals.
Genes showing a much different realationship than bodyshape would suggest highlights beautifully what evolution can achieve. A very small number of mutations in just the right spots can help a lifeform adapt to a whole new niche. Doedicurus is an interesting case of convergent evolution to Ankylosauria.
I used to pass by this armadillo roadkill in my neighborhood whenever I would take a walk. it was stiff, on its back, and would always creep the hell out of me when I saw it. I suspected it was an armadillo, but wasnt sure cause I thought they only lived in the southwest (I'm from georgia). but after finding out tons of armadillos live here and that the animal I saw was most likely one, I'm OBSESSED. I live in the suburbs, so getting random spottings of wildlife here (deer, frogs, rabbits, oppossum, etc.) is both a little scary and interesting
Cool I’m from Maine so I have very little knowledge of their range *i have no idea why I typed it like I was smart or learning something from a tour guide*
I wonder how well armadillos would do in deserts in other parts of the world, like the Sahara. Their shells are nicely camouflaged to match sand, they are borrowers so they could hide if that'd fail, and they can endure the heat of it, and they wouldn't need a lot of food so they could last long between finding insect hives
Could the glyptodon fossil found all the way down into southern Argentina be possibly explained by either or both continental drift climactic changes? Was South America closer to the equator at the time that this giant armadillo specimen was alive, or was it alive during a time between glacial maximums when the climate was generally warmer, or possibly a combination of the two factors?
I Recently Saw An Albino Armadillo Here In Northern Alabama! Armadillos Are Plentiful In Alabama And Florida. I See Them Daily. They Love Eating All Kinds Of Ants. They Are Not Scared Of People.
I’ve never seen one in the wild yet but they are supposedly migrating north into the US more an more. There are a lot of other species with the same niche so I hope they don’t become invasive.
I live in a temperate zone in the middle of the peampean plain. In Winter it can get every night under minus -0ºC. Frost is common. I have to tell you that Armadillos (Mulitas) exist here nonetheless, so they don't need subtropical temperatures. They just borrow in at night in winter and at noon in summer.
@@Argentvs in America they burrow early in winter and are out late in summer, you can see them everywhere. They are actually living near the mountains of N.C, in the Appalachian area. I live along the coast myself
Armadillos can carry leprosy and humans can be infected if you handle them or eat them. Became of their low metabolic rate a researcher thought they culture the bacterium in them since the bacterium doesn't grow in petrie dishes. Later they found it was true in nature too.
My favorite part was the bit about how Stegosaurus might have been packin' schmeat
I realllly hope that's not all dinosaurs. Like you needed another reason to fear the T-rex.
Ain’t nobody packs like snails tho
@@garouthedemon7401 why? Why are we talking about animal genitalia. With that being said, what about the horse Hammond rode in the Burmese special?
- Jurassic park music plays
*Jeff Goldblooms' eyes widen*
Here we go again
If it exists.....
I love South American evolution, it’s so unique and interesting
There were marsupial predators like thylacosmilus there too don’t know if they live d in the same time as doedicurus but still cool
And I love capivaras
Yes, i know, we are great
@Tyler Bull The heaviest ones probabily hunted them
@Max Default they originated in South America, though, and are only in the very south part of North America
That giant armadillo Doedicurus had a spiky, clubbed tail like an Ankylosaurus. Convergent evolution again.
then you also have weird shit like armadillosuchus. look it up.
@@Koraxus
Thats a weird one indeed.
Also, check out the real life dragon, Ambopteryx.
And he can gather alot of stone
Pepe beat me to it, 😂
@MadCity Jack ambopteryx.
8:10 OH DEAR. I audibly awwwed at the pink fairy armadillo. Beyond adorable.
Pokémon
Right?!
Just to clear things up, I live in southern Argentina, we have armadillos here too, they live pretty much in all the patagonia too.
Yeah, saw that map and found odd that the south of Brazil wasn't part of the armadillo area.
I know armadillos go much farther north in the the USA as well. I know for a fact they are common in Missouri and the central USA
Yeah, they are common in Tennessee and have been slowly moving up into Kentucky as well.
Cool
@@grimm3287 I have a picture of my friend holding up a dead armadillo in Tennessee when we were driving thru so I have PROOF!!! We live in Delaware and he used a paper towel to protect his hand, I know they carry diseases.... just saying. I KNOW they are in Tennessee!
Absolutely excellent video. This is a family I had little knowledge of. Love the videos of the unique South American fauna.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it
Moth Light Media As a South American I have to tell you that I loved the video, but i saw an error in it. I’ve seen armadillos in the Southern Patagonia with my own eyes. They still live in the cold enviorment surrounding the Magellan Strait. The species Ive seen is called Zaedyus pichiy. Great work anyway!
Oh I just read that they didnt live there before the 70’s when human infrastructure was made. They literally migrated south crossing rivers by walking on bridges. So funny and interesting at the same time!
As a Brazilian and a biology enthusiast I just love it
3:41 I like that you point out pretty much the initial key to evolution, that is random mutations popping up periodically that get selected for by a population of animals and even plants. Basically mutations can either prove beneficial, impair or even not effect the overall survival of an organism which must not only live long enough to reproduce but reproduce more often for these traits, these mutations to be passed on to future generations. It's how things can change overtime, because ALL lifeforms are constantly mutating, it's just at a very slow rate and an accumulation of many, MANY subtle changes over the eons that eventually leads to larger and stranger, more noticable adaptations. The only reason why animal species are seemingly so uniform and distinct in body shapes and traits is because these things get selected for by the struggle for survival, meaning that things that produced the best, long term results stuck around throughout the generations while things that didn't will either disappear or only rarely pop up, negative or neutral mutations alike. But what determines good or bad or benign mutations is honestly up to circumstances like whether, geography, food availability, competition, predator to prey relationships and etc.
But the determining point is not time, it's generations. So viruses evolve pretty fast in time, because they get copied at vast rates.
Your idea that low metabolism was part the reason for evolving armor is well presented.
I tend to agree.
Never heard that before.
The is a paper by Jim Joughry on this "Life in a half shell"
🎶turtles on a half shell,...TURTLE POWER! 🎶
There is a mistake; there are a fairy amount of cold-adapted armadillos today. At least here in Argentina there are several species living in Patagonia. And all the species living in the high altitudes are very cold resistant
True, I have seen them in Kansas and I can assure you that it is not hot in winter. They have to deal yearly with snow, so quite cold
@@raulmt4 And in Texas. His map is inaccurate.
I wonder if they hibernate.
They make it all that to southern Illinois
they can at least resist -15ºC no problem. probably even more.
We still have many species of armadillos down here in Uruguay, that map is inaccurate. There's also a fossil found here of a 'missing link' it is an armadillo shell that is only divided in two pieces while modern species have up to nine folds.
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Shara Watson thank you
@@mothlightmedia1936 Would you be able to make a video on the evolution of chickens? 🐔🐔🐔
Domesticated chickens or just all fowl?
@@mothlightmedia1936 all fowl would be great 🐔❤️ I really love them 🙏 I really appreciate it
Shara Watson ok I'll add it to the list
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Good video! I’ve really been interested in the evolution of Armadillos and their relatives.
Thank you
6:40 Idk about that habitat range, in Argentina to my knowledge at least we have armadillos(quirquinchos) and fairy armadillos(pichiciego) as far south as the provinces of Mendoza and Neuquen and it gets very cold in desert regions.
Great videos btw!
how cold is very cold, descriptions of hot and cold vary between people, maybe they have addapted to that cold
@@Superbug-tf8zy To be fair that range was probably a generalization, but in winter it's not uncommon for puddles to freeze over at night and to get one day a year that it snows which could be more if it wasn't a desert.
I've seen Armadillos in the Chilean Region of Aysen
Y el tatú carreta?
@@Superbug-tf8zy there are armadillos on the Patagonia too, which gets really cold on winter.
Congratulations for this video!
Armadillos are native here in Brazil and have already been widely consumed as game meat, which fortunately is quite rare today.
But one of them has always been spared. Euphractus sexcinctus, known here as the tatu-peba (smelly armadillo, in guarani language), is reputed to eat dead people in cemeteries and is therefore considered disgusting. Truth or lie, lucky him! ...
about ten years ago I got to spend some time in the Summertown TN area. People told me the armadillos were recent arrivals, but appreciated because they eat Fire Ants, another recent immigrant. So the Xenarthrans continue succeeding.
Anything that eats FIRE ANTS is a friend of mine!
The only trait that can prevent a species from going extinct now is by evoking cuteness or awe in humans. Either those two or tasting delicious and being easy to keep as livestock. The others are on a clock. All of them.
Can we please make mosquitos go extinct
That's unfortunately extremely accurate.
Ya, people can be so shallow
Does that mean we’ll eventually create a breed of animal that’s TOO cute through selective breeding?
@@wesleyfilms Nope
The quality of the content you post blows my mind. This is an outstanding video among the great collection of videos from this channel. Kudos
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This looks and sounds like a cutscene from Myst explaining how things went down and evolved. Awesome.
Glyptodonts: AM BIG...WILL SMASH
meanwhile, their Pink Fairy cousins: uwu
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It's been within my lifetime that I saw armadillos migrate into my own back yard, and I have got to say they have occupied a niche I didn't even realize was empty. I love those little precious lepers!
Its so hard to find a channel that actually talks about interesting animal facts, and isnt just a top 10 channel
This channel is really cool! The editing is clear and appealing. Super interesting science and ideas. ty
The Pink Fairy Armadillo has got to be a real life Pokémon.
Glyptodonts and pampatheres would probably be around if not for humans (though pampatheres would probably have declined anyways)
Fantastic video, I learned so much about armadillos. Thank you!
Thinking about the one with horns on its snout, perhaps they were used to aid in digging and burrowing? Armadillos where I live can dig and burrow with their claws, but I imagine that in a harder, rockier terrain, horns might also have helped with this. Possibly not, they may have been a purely defensive adaptation, but it might have helped them dig for food or something similar.
Possibly, maybe that's why the horned gopher was horned as well. I suppose the problem is there are no animals that do that today so it's difficult to make a comparison
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@@mothlightmedia1936 well, pigs, they have defenses which are somewhat similar to horns and are amazing diggers. Those horns could have been used to impress others, or to fight, while they could still use their heads to dig
@@mothlightmedia1936 As a human who's dug a lot of holes in rocky terrain, I can say it's hard to fathom a digging animal having those horns and not using them to dig. If I have to dig a hole in poor ground, I take 4-8 different hand tools and anticipate possibly having to improvise a couple more. I can definitely see situations where those horns would be very useful and the claws alone would fail and have to go around or try another spot.
Also, if you watch un-horned mammals digging, they do typically use their noses a lot, especially to manipulate rocks. It's easy to see how once the adaptation began to appear, it would have had an immediate use and benefit without any behavioural change, even just as a couple of hard patches on the snout, without the later benefits of being tools in themselves, so I'd expect it to have been pretty strongly selected for.
Moth Light Media
Wait horn gopher exist? ICE Age didn’t made that up.
I had no idea these little creatures that dig in my garden and worried my late dog to no end were so fascinating
I have pink fairy armadillo kept as pet. He love digging holes and sometimes it helped me planting some small plants.
This might be the closest anyone's ever come to owning a Pokemon on real life.
But don’t they die quickly from being away from their habitat?
How old did it become? Did you keep it in a terrarium or what?
Definitely the creepiest thing I ever saw involving giant armadillos was a 5-part special on animals in North America during the Ice Age. They had a jaguar sitting in front of an adult Doedicarus, chewing it's face off while it stood there. It's scary seeing a large cat casually using a rhino-sized animal's face as a chew toy, but worse when they show the skull afterwards with huge gouges directly where the brain was.
My favorite part in all of these videos is that collective "oh shit" moment, experienced by all of the animal kingdom when we arrived at the scene 10000 years ago, sharpening a spear and chewing bubblegum
These videos are so relaxing and well-made, thank you so much.
Ayyye I totally know where the photo for the background of the armadillo at 3:10 is from. I'm 100% sure that's the santa catalina mountains north of tucson az cuz I can see window rock peak. Wouldn't be surprised if it was taken in the sabino canyon area.
their shells almost remind me giant pieces of chicharon.
Hahaha holy shit I dont think anyone will get it but it does! Lmao
I know they're not closely related, but... maybe cover the most similar animal to armadillos by way of convergent evolution, pangolins? Love those cute guys.
Im from Magallanes, chile, we have armadillos, they can be found this south.
Love this channel so much
OH MY GOD. I live in the States and I've always thought all armadillos are like cat sized. The armadillo is a staple of Texas/western culture and I just figured there was only the one. I can't believe they can be so massive in different places. When you casually said armadillos are dog sized I had to look it up myself and sure enough they can be so big. Insane.
I immediately went to look at my armadillo scutes I found in nature and cleaned. So cool!
This is awesome video. A lot of things to learn about Armadillo! Thanks for sharing video :)
Excellent! Thank you for this fascinating presentation.
Outstanding channel my dude
Thank you
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Great video, but I must correct something; there ARE armadillos living on cold places, like the patagonian hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus) from southern Chile and Argentina.
Armadillos are now found in N Tennessee, won't be long till found in Kentucky. And has anyone else noted the fact that Armadillos, Skunks and Possums all apparently went to the same Road Crossing School
Never thought I would see such a long documentary about something I consider a pest. Stay the hell out of my garden armadillo
The big club on the tail would have been a perfect weapon against the terror birds legs. A good leg sweep would disable and cripple the big birds, I doubt the bigs birds would mess with such a formidable animal.
Armadillos live as far south as Uruguay, we call them mulitas
Awesome video! Just a small note, I found it confusing that you seemed to refer to North America simply as “America”. I am from outside America so kept misinterpreting your meaning as in my country “America” is a catch all for both south and North America. It might be less confusing for other viewers if you specified. eg. “Found throughout NORTH America and Mexico” vs “found throughout America and Mexico.”
"The only shelled mammals"
Pangolins: I'm a joke to you?
Aren't Pangolins scaled instead?
I woud love to see a video about pangolins.
Dont worry pangolins you are the only mammals with scales
They have more like a scales
Only shelled mammal? With a strict def of shell? If armadillos don't meet the strict def of shell, like a snail or turtle, then I suppose you could also claim pangolins as another mammal that sort of has a shell. Both "shells" are segmented, in different ways. One shell is banded, the other shell is scaled. Banded armor vs scale armor. Similar results. Both curl into a defensive ball.
Fascinating!
Could you include the meaning of the names of more of the animals you mention?
Cool! Thank you .. The rhinoceros is my spirit animal. So I welcome knowing about the rhino of South America. I'm all kinds of excited!
I think it's less that armor genes are rare, and more that no amount of armor is as protective as not being hit in the first place, so speed and camouflage are positively selected for over shielding.
I love it when watching theses types of videos and they say “fairly recently” “as recently as” and it’s 500million+ years ago. Ah yes last month, in earth’s life time.
This is a great channel
I live in South Carolina USA. We have recently started seeing several armadillos here
About the Peltephilus and the Pink Fairy Armadillo, both of them have "horns", but the pink fairy armadillo's one are probably vestigial.
Thanks, very few people point out how man was likely very instrumental in the disappearance of many large fauna.
Love your videos
They are so interesting
Great video, but some armadillos still live in southern Argentina despite the cold weather
Grew up loving armadillos now I can love them and the ancestors
That mouse eating at the beginning was so cute
I wonder if they developed the armor sorta like Pangolins but as one solid plate instead of the scaled armor like them. As for how they competed with the other large herbivores I'd guess that they were more ground browsers and ate shrubs, glasses, or may have been omnivores than purely herbivores. Other large herbivores might have grazed other plants or trees. I would say they had a niche very similar to ankylosaurs of being slow shorter heavily armored grazers.
The distribution map of modern armadillos at 7:00 is very mistaken, armadillos are found in great numbers far more south and north than it is shown
Incredible video! However, I would like to point out that armadillos are now being found as far north as Nebraska. I've seen them myself.
Up until this video, the question of how steggies bread never crossed my mind. I will never look at them the same again.
Wilfred Darr There’s an infamous paleoart of a stegosaur attempting to mount a prosauropod, and it shows what a stegosaurus penis might have looked like. (It’s probably based of accounts of giraffes attempting to mount a donkey at a zoo).
Superb work, as usual! If macro-euphractys was a predator-as its sharp teeth in the discovered jawbone would suggest-might this indicate that at least *some* prehistoric xenarthrans had a higher metabolic rate, so that they would have a better chance at chasing down prey? I understand that they *could*-as the video said-have been part-scavengers and part-burrowing, cannibalistic predators...Yet is it at least possible that *some* past groups of xenarthrans diverged from the main evolutionary path of their family (and developed faster metabolic rates to aid in the development of a predatory lifestyle? After all, *most* sharks are cold-blooded, yet *a few species* (such as carcharodon carcarias (great whites) have developed warm bloodedness to be able to tolerate the cold seas that are the habitat of their favourite, fat-and-blubber-rich prey animals: seals.
i never knew i wanted to know so much about armadillos
Good voice, very fitting!
That was a great video, thanks.
Genes showing a much different realationship than bodyshape would suggest highlights beautifully what evolution can achieve. A very small number of mutations in just the right spots can help a lifeform adapt to a whole new niche.
Doedicurus is an interesting case of convergent evolution to Ankylosauria.
I used to pass by this armadillo roadkill in my neighborhood whenever I would take a walk. it was stiff, on its back, and would always creep the hell out of me when I saw it. I suspected it was an armadillo, but wasnt sure cause I thought they only lived in the southwest (I'm from georgia). but after finding out tons of armadillos live here and that the animal I saw was most likely one, I'm OBSESSED. I live in the suburbs, so getting random spottings of wildlife here (deer, frogs, rabbits, oppossum, etc.) is both a little scary and interesting
Any chance of something on aquatic temnospondyl amphibians from the Triassic? I have never heard of them. As always, huge 'big ups' for your work.
Yes. I did a video on temnospndyls but I wanted to go into more detail on the oceanic ones and thank you
8:15 My new favourite. Holy shit i love him.
This is just fascinating! Absolutely wonderful and delightful. Thank you so much for this segment of news.
This channel is the best
Armadillos are just the cutest!
Would love to see some of these brought to Mars when we start terraforming it and just seeing what happens.
Any evidence of human interaction with giant armadillos (depictions in art, folk tales ect....)?
Here in Argentina bones have been found within human nomad camps remains and I think some bones with scars from spears and knives.
They were on the Ark.
@@kinglyzard cool story
@@lazarus8453 yes
Arnadillos are my favorite animal i love them
until they destroy your YARD !!!!!
Great channel
Thank you
Thanks for the interesting presentation.
Armadillos are becoming quite common in Kansas and Missouri
Or at least they are falling from the sky dead onto the roads.
Cool I’m from Maine so I have very little knowledge of their range *i have no idea why I typed it like I was smart or learning something from a tour guide*
And I'm seeing more in Kentucky. Me and a relative almost hit one in a truck couple days ago. Luckily missed the little guy
Too many Saguaros in the video. They evolved recently and never made it to South America.
But there were armadillos at Mexico and south-west US. I am curious how recently did Saguaros evolved
i have seen hairy armadillos (Peludos) here in central argentina. much further south than the northern regions you mention
I wonder how well armadillos would do in deserts in other parts of the world, like the Sahara. Their shells are nicely camouflaged to match sand, they are borrowers so they could hide if that'd fail, and they can endure the heat of it, and they wouldn't need a lot of food so they could last long between finding insect hives
The only thing I would think they'd struggle with is finding enough water or atleast would have to be weary of predators staking sources of water.
Armadillo digs its way up to the surface, and I’m like “Aaaaaaww!”
Could the glyptodon fossil found all the way down into southern Argentina be possibly explained by either or both continental drift climactic changes? Was South America closer to the equator at the time that this giant armadillo specimen was alive, or was it alive during a time between glacial maximums when the climate was generally warmer, or possibly a combination of the two factors?
(Insert "or" between "...continental drift..." and "climactic change" in the first sentence)
I Recently Saw An Albino Armadillo Here In Northern Alabama! Armadillos Are Plentiful In Alabama And Florida. I See Them Daily. They Love Eating All Kinds Of Ants. They Are Not Scared Of People.
I think the shell is a response to their slow healing because of their metabolism. They had to avoid damage on the first place to survive.
Thanks. They are so interesting. I send greetings to all.
I’ve never seen one in the wild yet but they are supposedly migrating north into the US more an more. There are a lot of other species with the same niche so I hope they don’t become invasive.
4:45 Ph: hello step armadillo
Hmmm, so all you’re saying is i need to develop a shell huh?
I live in a temperate zone in the middle of the peampean plain. In Winter it can get every night under minus -0ºC. Frost is common.
I have to tell you that Armadillos (Mulitas) exist here nonetheless, so they don't need subtropical temperatures. They just borrow in at night in winter and at noon in summer.
Don't you have that backwards?
@@edwardgomez5616 no, what do you mean?.
@@Argentvs in America they burrow early in winter and are out late in summer, you can see them everywhere. They are actually living near the mountains of N.C, in the Appalachian area. I live along the coast myself
@@Argentvs armadillo are quite tasty. We just smack em in the head with a hammer and eat em in Mexico.
@@edwardgomez5616 some people here eat them. I find it barbaric.
I swear, armadillos are so cute and look like snuggly little pillbugs
Those opening 25 seconds blew my mind
Just an adder which you may have seen. It's on You Tube "Giant Prehistoric Shell Discovered in Buenos Aires"
John F yes I saw that while researching this video wasn't it found by someone's dog?
Armadillos can carry leprosy and humans can be infected if you handle them or eat them. Became of their low metabolic rate a researcher thought they culture the bacterium in them since the bacterium doesn't grow in petrie dishes. Later they found it was true in nature too.