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Amazing Armadillos

  • July 26, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Nine-banded armadillos are the only animals that almost always give birth to four identical babies, which form out of the same egg. But, unlike cartoon armadillos, they can’t roll into a ball for protection, because their bodies are covered with bony, unbendable plates.

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