anteater

Extant animals like giant armadillos and giant anteaters, related to Darwin’s ancient giant sloths, have experienced similar pressures.

A tamandua, or collared anteater, with prizefighter arms and curved claws that break open termite mounds, tried to ignore a car full of onlookers.

Despite often being compared to pigs and South American anteater, aardvarks are not related to them.

Threatened pangolins, known as armored anteaters, scramble along branches.

Pangolins—also called scaly anteaters—are the only mammals with reptilelike scales, which grow from modified hair follicles.