giant armadillo
priodontes maximus latin

Not one of those small guys you see as road kill on the west Texas highways, but a giant armadillo.

The average sleep time of a captive giant armadillo is said to be 18.1 hours.

Edentata, the giant armadillo, proved to be of little assistance.

But who would suspect that the giant armadillo was a notorious cage-breaker?

No more giant armadillos came to visit.

There was also a tanklike creature, close to the ground, which vaguely resembled a giant armadillo.

Giant armadillos are fairly solitary and nocturnal, spending the day in burrows.

Current estimates indicate the giant armadillo may have undergone a worrying population decline of 30 to 50 percent over the past three decades.

Glyptodon was something like a giant armadillo, and mammoths were hairy elephants.

One called the "Squirrel's Dream" shows a giant armadillo with a checkerboard shell.

There was a warming cabinet in Nate's apartment that looked like a breadbox made out of a giant armadillo shell.

"Why, they look like giant armadillos!"

Giant armadillos use their large front claws to dig for prey and rip open termite mounds.

In addition, live giant armadillos are frequently captured for trade on the black market, and invariably die during transportation or in captivity.

Giant Armadillo - An armadillo mutation located in Area 51.

Hunted throughout its range, a single giant armadillo supplies a great deal of meat, and is the primary source of protein for some indigenous peoples.

Jay Leno as Fast Tony, the giant armadillo.

There was more here: giant armadillos, ocelots and fresh-water dolphins, but I would not see them because from this point on human beings would interfere.

In addition to the species that still exist today, their usual prey animals included the so-called mega-fauna such as giant armadillos, sloths and mastodons.

Tapirs, howler monkeys, peccary, giant armadillo, jaguar and bush dogs are among the endangered mammals found in the area.

The giant armadillo prefers termites and some ants as prey, and often consumes the entire population of a termite mound.

The extant giant of this group is the giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), native to tropical South America.

The bottom of the spring bowl is littered with bones of mastodons, giant sloths, giant armadillos and camels.

Mammals found on the savanna include white-tailed deer, giant armadillo, small savanna armadillo, and tapir.

She sees ground sloths, great auks, quaggas, moas, heath hens, Javan rhinos, giant armadillos, and many other rarities.