With some genetic sleuthing, scientists have fingered a likely culprit in the spread of leprosy in the southern United States: the nine-banded armadillo. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Giant armadillos in Brazil have been spotted destroying bee hives in search of larvae, causing economic losses to beekeepers and consequent retaliatory killings. The species has a low population ...

The only armadillo native to the United States is the nine-banded. Armadillos are the only mammal other than humans to carry a specific strain of leprosy. The armadillo's closest animal relative is ...

Government scientists have been trying to pin down the cause of a spate of mysterious cases of leprosy in the south. See, leprosy is kind of hard to catch these days because we don't still live in ...