Growing up in the Mission Valley area, I saw many small animals on our land, such as racoons, skunks, possums, and, of course, armadillos. Did you know that the nine-banded armadillo, a distant cousin ...

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 ...

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 ...