Say hello to one of the world&#39;s most mysterious animals
This is one of the few photos ever taken of the giant armadillo,
a five feet long behemoth that lives a nocturnal, solitary life
in isolated wetlands of central Brazil. You can probably see why
these things are so rare.  Twice as big as your average
armadillo, the giant species likes to live in the undisturbed
forests of central Brazil, remaining in underground burrows for
most of the day. Their behavior patterns keep them far away from
the gaze of humans, which means that they're one of the least
well understood animals on the planet, particularly for
something of this size.  The photo up top is the result of a
camera trap set up recently in South America's Pantanal region,
one of the world's biggest areas of pristine wetlands. It took
ten weeks and several camera traps built by researchers from the
Royal Zoological Society of Scotland to get this photo and a
handful of others, underscoring the immense difficulty of
studying these reclusive creatur