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On these warm summer nights, I see them often as I drive home on FM 803. They sometimes stop, frozen for a few seconds, their eyes reflecting my headlights in an eerie red – and then they dash off into giant clumps of prickly pear, where predators can’t follow. The Spaniards named them armadillos – […] The post The Armadillo’s Texas Roots Reach Back To Ancient Times appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.