Texas' official state small mammal has a new name. "It was widely accepted that the nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus, ranges from northern Argentina all the way to southern Illinois, but in recent years, some scientists have been putting forth evidence that this is actually a complex of multiple different species," said study co-author Frédéric Delsuc, a research director at the National Center for Scientific Research in France, in a statement. "By studying the DNA of armadillos from all along thi