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 Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:00 am Post subject: Absurd Creature of the Week: Pink Fairy Armadillo Crawls Ou |
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In the deserts of Argentina dwells the remarkable pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus), a 5-inch-long, quarter-pound critter with a rosy shell atop silky white hair. This smallest of all armadillos spends almost its entire life burrowing through the earth, hunting various invertebrates and chewing up plant matter. It is a rarely seen, almost totally unstudied marvel -- what you read here is pretty much all we've observed about the pink fairy armadillo.
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