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What lives in Brazil and looks like a football? Brazil’s official World Cup mascot. The three-banded armadillo is a mammal native to Brazil’s dry tropical forests, and rolls into a ball when threatened. But nearly half of the armadillos’ habitat has been cleared.

Until just recently the science world knew little of the giant armadillo, the largest of the armadillo species living in South America.

What lives in Brazil and looks like a football? Brazil’s official World Cup mascot. The three-banded armadillo is a mammal native to Brazil’s dry tropical forests, and rolls into a ball when threatened. But nearly half of the armadillos’ habitat has been cleared.

Until just recently the science world knew little of the giant armadillo, the largest of the armadillo species living in South America.