Video from the Toledo Zoo shows the newborn curling up into a ball to be weighed on a small scale. The three-banded armadillo is the only species of armadillo that can fully roll up into a ball ...

A baby armadillo was about the size of a golf ball when it was born at the Toledo Zoo. Screengrab from Toledo Zoo video A tiny new arrival at an Ohio zoo was “the size of a golf ball” at birth.

Only two armadillo species, the southern three-banded and the Brazilian three-banded, roll into a ball if threatened ... novemcinctus may actually have up to 11 bands, bony plates connected ...