JACKSON COUNTY – When you think of armadillos, you may associate them with Texas. But scientists tell us they have found a permanent home in Illinois.
On farmland near Carbondale, F. Agustin Jimenèz walks past acres of soybeans into a wooded area. Jimenèz is a Zoology professor at Southern Illinois University. He’s setting up camera traps to catch images of an elusive animal coming in and out of a burrow…