--- title: "#Armored Animals & Superpower Traits (21 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Tough exterior carapaces, bony scutes, and thick dermal shielding that resist crushing jaw strikes. Explore all 21 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" --- # #Armored Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations > Tough exterior carapaces, bony scutes, and thick dermal shielding that resist crushing jaw strikes. - **Trait Category**: Superpowers & Defense - **Species Count**: 21 Curated Creatures - **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/armored/) ## Species With #Armored - [African Crested Porcupine](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/crested-porcupine/) (*Hystrix cristata*) - **Superpower**: Reverse charge that stabs an attacker with its thicker, shorter quills, backed by a rattling tail and raised quills that can make it look two to three times bigger - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Nova Twins (Modern Metalcore & Electronic Post-Hardcore) - [Alligator Gar](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alligator-gar/) (*Atractosteus spatula*) - **Superpower**: Interlocking ganoid scale armor with a hard outer layer over a tough bony base, two rows of fang-like teeth in the upper jaw, and a vascularized swim bladder that can work as a lung - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Creedence Clearwater Revival (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Alligator Snapping Turtle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/alligator-snapping-turtle/) (*Macrochelys temminckii*) - **Superpower**: Vermiform lingual lure ambush and bone-crushing beak leverage - **Danger**: Extreme | **Conservation**: Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Corrosion Of Conformity (Swamp Metal & Southern Heavy Rock) - [American Alligator](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-alligator/) (*Alligator mississippiensis*) - **Superpower**: Jaws strong enough to crack a turtle shell - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Black Pistol Fire (Garage Blues & Swamp Rock) - [Armadillo Girdled Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/armadillo-girdled-lizard/) (*Ouroborus cataphractus*) - **Superpower**: Ouroboros Armored Ball & Communal Crevices - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: Queens of the Stone Age (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Bare-Nosed Wombat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bare-nosed-wombat/) (*Vombatus ursinus*) - **Superpower**: A rump of very tough, thick skin that shields it from teeth and claws, and back legs strong enough to crush an attacker against the burrow roof. - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Silverchair (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Chambered Nautilus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/chambered-nautilus/) (*Nautilus pompilius*) - **Superpower**: A chambered shell with a gas-releasing buoyancy tube called the siphuncle, plus more than 90 suckerless tentacles and a pair of rhinophores that track an odor plume to its source - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Chon (Math Rock & Midwest Emo) - [Common Pill Bug](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-pill-bug/) (*Armadillidium vulgare*) - **Superpower**: Curls into a ball when squeezed or shaken - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Oasis (Britpop & 90s Madchester) - [Giant Ground Pangolin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-ground-pangolin/) (*Smutsia gigantea*) - **Superpower**: A sticky tongue up to 70 centimeters long for trapping ants and termites, and a scaly body it rolls into a ball that's next to impossible to uncurl. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Tinariwen (Saharan Desert Rock & Tuareg Shred) - [Giant Isopod](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-isopod/) (*Bathynomus giganteus*) - **Superpower**: A big body that can hold large fat reserves, which may help it fast when food is scarce and sporadic. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Mortiis (Dungeon Synth & Dark Fantasy) - [Gila Monster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gila-monster/) (*Heloderma suspectum*) - **Superpower**: Beaded osteoderm armor and venom containing exendin-4, the peptide behind the diabetes drug exenatide (Byetta) - **Danger**: Extreme | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: All Them Witches (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Indian Star Tortoise](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/indian-star-tortoise/) (*Geochelone elegans*) - **Superpower**: A starburst shell pattern that breaks up its outline in tall grass, and a body that can survive 10 to 15 days without food - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Steve Reich (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Japanese Spider Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/japanese-spider-crab/) (*Macrocheira kaempferi*) - **Superpower**: Longest Legspan of Any Living Arthropod - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Justice (Industrial Rock & Cyberpunk) - [Komodo Dragon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/komodo-dragon/) (*Varanus komodoensis*) - **Superpower**: Iron-reinforced serrated cutting teeth, venomous shock-inducing glands, and chainmail osteoderm armor - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Metallica (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Nine-Banded Armadillo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/nine-banded-armadillo/) (*Dasypus novemcinctus*) - **Superpower**: One fertilized egg splits into four identical embryos - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Johann Pachelbel (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Pink Fairy Armadillo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pink-fairy-armadillo/) (*Chlamyphorus truncatus*) - **Superpower**: An almost entirely underground mammal in a shell of bony plates and hardened scales, and almost all of that shell is flexible. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Data Deficient - **Soundtrack**: Pale Waves (Dream Pop & Neon Indie) - [Scaly-foot Snail](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/scaly-foot-snail/) (*Chrysomallon squamiferum*) - **Superpower**: Foot scales and shell often mineralised with iron sulfide, and a heart that's about 4% of its body volume - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Godflesh (Industrial Rock & Cyberpunk) - [Texas Horned Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/texas-horned-lizard/) (*Phrynosoma cornutum*) - **Superpower**: Blood-squirting eye defense and skin channels that steer water toward its snout - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Calexico (Desert Americana & Cinematic Rock) - [Thorny Devil](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/thorny-devil/) (*Moloch horridus*) - **Superpower**: Grooves between its scales collect water and carry it by capillary action, even against gravity, to the corners of its mouth. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Thorny Seahorse](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/thorny-seahorse/) (*Hippocampus histrix*) - **Superpower**: Males carry the eggs in a brood pouch, where they fertilize, aerate and osmoregulate the embryos. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Hole (90s Grunge & Alt-Rock) - [White Rhinoceros](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/white-rhinoceros/) (*Ceratotherium simum*) - **Superpower**: A dermis 18 millimeters thick on average, and a keratin front horn that can grow longer than 1.5 meters (5 feet). - 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