Armadillos are a hodgepodge of different animal parts and behaviours rarely seen together—in short, they’re oddballs! In this companion to The Upside-Down Book of Sloths (ISBN 978 1 324 01577 2), Elizabeth Shreeve explores the evolutionary history of armadillos and how they became the burrowing, swimming, roly-poly, armoured predators of today. She pairs modern species like the adorable pink fairy armadillo, the chilling screaming hairy armadillo and the iconic nine-banded armadillo with their ancient counterparts, such as the glyptodont, which could be as large as a car, had a turtle-like dome of armour and even a spiked tail club!
Entertaining, educational and completely endearing, The Oddball Book of Armadillos digs deep into armadillos, their evolutionary history and their future in our changing world.
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Elizabeth Shreeve grew up in a family of writers and scientists, chasing butterflies and otherwise scaring the daylights out of small creatures in the local marshes and fields. A graduate of Harvard College and Graduate School of Design, she lives in northern California.
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More about Elizabeth ShreeveEven as a child, Isabella Grott had an inclination for drawing and painting, that made her enroll and graduate at the art institute in Trento (Italy). After that, she moved to Florence where she currently lives and where she obtained a BA in graphics at the Accademia di Belle Arti. Afterwards, she also graduated at the Nemo Academy of digital arts. During th
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