Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Armadillo species are often defined by the number of bands on their back. I've said before, in Dutch, German etc. they are called "belt-animal". In many other etymologies, they are called "armored ones" or something along those lines, the armore referring to the large plates. It has no real scales, just bony plates.

The pangolin on the other hand, has scales.

That's irrelevant, however, since in medieval beast books, scales plus a forked tail means "this animal lives in the water".

I've already stated that there were species of armadillos that had no bands and one such species is still extant albeit only in South America. Apparently, over the past six hundred years, banded armadillos came to dominate.

As for your aquatic theory, here is a VMS depiction of fish skin and fish tail:



It does not even remotely resemble the skin and tail of the armadillo which was also drawn in same swamp section of the VMS:



The armadillo does not have a forked tail. The tail is being depicted in multiple places to reflect the movement of rolling up into a ball. Note that likewise the ground immediately below the tail is turned upwards to reflect the same thing, not to mention a sequence of blue markings rolling up into a ball just below the ears.

Really, you guys are hopeless.