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.

Her doctoral research focused on Euphractus sexcinctus, aka the yellow, or six-banded, armadillo (above), whose courtship rituals she has observed and filmed. In the Pantanal wetlands of Brazil ...