Another quality Texas aphorism! “There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.” The photo you took was perfect, and you suffered nobly to get it, but we might also see something else in it. For most of the Eocene armadillos (xenarthra) lived in Antarctica, before crossing a land bridge (with yellow stripes?) into South America. Then around 6 million years ago the panamanian isthmus formed and they crossed into Central America, before arriving to that highway in Texas. They look helpless and disoriented, but they've been on the highway for so long, and covered so much more distance than our species has, the photo could be diorama in the natural history museum, showing them on the road, as always.
Another quality Texas aphorism! “There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.” The photo you took was perfect, and you suffered nobly to get it, but we might also see something else in it. For most of the Eocene armadillos (xenarthra) lived in Antarctica, before crossing a land bridge (with yellow stripes?) into South America. Then around 6 million years ago the panamanian isthmus formed and they crossed into Central America, before arriving to that highway in Texas. They look helpless and disoriented, but they've been on the highway for so long, and covered so much more distance than our species has, the photo could be diorama in the natural history museum, showing them on the road, as always.