I think they’ve made contact with the radioactive wasps. But I digress. Once upon a time, dinosaurs took a meteor to the face ...

In South American rainforests, giant anteaters dig into termite mounds with their long, sticky tongues. In Africa and Asia, ...

A. Both are correct depending on the definition used. If you call all long-nosed mammals that eat ants (and termites) anteaters, they are indeed found on the five continents you refer to.

According to new research, relying on ants as a sole food source has evolved at least 12 times in mammals since the reign of ...

Name: Silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) Where it lives: From southern Mexico to South America (Peru, Bolivia and Brazil) What it eats: Ants, wasps, wasp pupae, termites and small beetles ...

"We’re not going to import ants from South America because then we'd have invasive species. And that would not be good! The anteater at the zoo is leash trained, just like a regular house dog.

Animals come in all different shapes and sizes and have evolved in diverse and unique ways. To adapt to the food in their ...

Like other anteaters it has huge claws for digging up ant and termite nests. Pangolins, also called scaly anteaters, include eight species, of which half are found in Africa and half in Asia.

Like other anteaters they have huge claws for digging up ant and termite nests. Pangolins, also called scaly anteaters, include eight species, of which half are found in Africa and half in Asia.

The silky anteater is the smallest, with an average body length of little more than a foot and a weight of less than 1 pound. Silky anteaters, which some geneticists consider to represent several ...