Armadillos heading north are the climate change frontier
The creatures haven’t made it to Pennsylvania yet, but researchers expect it’s only a matter of time.
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The creatures haven’t made it to Pennsylvania yet, but researchers expect it’s only a matter of time.
Here's where they have been found.
"OK, sure. Illinois is not Texas." But downstate, they're increasingly common. A woman outside Peoria found one in her flower pots. And yes, it's because of climate change.
Generally associated with Central America and first established in the United States in the 1850s, it’s taken armadillos 170 years to settle into Illinois. But as our springs become wetter