Armadillo Animal Skeleton Anatomy Heavyweight Zip Hoodie

Behold, the nine-banded armadillo! The roly-poly of the mammalian world! This incredible illustrative etching is by artist Edouard d'Alton, and depicts in stunning detail the skeletal anatomy of a nine-banded armadillo (also called the common long-nosed armadillo) (Dasypus novemcinctus). It's one of d'Alton's many gorgeous pieces from the 1821 osteological masterpiece Die vergleichende Osteologie. Is that the best collection of scientific illustrations ever published? In our opinion, it's got to be right up there. Sometimes we dream about it at night, and can almost smell its pages.

This is the perfect piece for armadillo enthusiasts (we know you're out there, raise your hands please), vulture culturists, bone collectors, osteologists, animal anatomists, zoologists, any of the ologists really. It's also a terrific conversation starter, because people will want to guess what animal is on your shirt, and then you can ease right in to hitting them with your favorite armadillo facts. We'll start you off with a great one: a startled armadillo can jump up to 4 feet straight up in the air!

This heavyweight zip-up hoodie is made with a very fancy low-pill, high-density cotton-poly fleece, for outstanding warmth and comfort. The cuffs and waistband are a stretchy spandex-blend and it's possible that ancient incantations were spoken over them during manufacturing, but we truly can't say for sure. It has split-pouch pockets, which is handy for when you need to stuff two deadly snakes into your pockets but they don't get along, and a covered zipper for keeping out the chill, obviously. The hood is jersey-lined and offers great sun protection, not that any of you are vampires, haha, that would be super silly, but also if you have bat minions they could probably hang inside your hoodie like a little cave.