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

New research has revealed the evolutionary reason anteaters have evolved at least a dozen times since the time of the ...

In fact, ant-eating may be a dramatically overlooked recipe for success ... ascent of ants and termites over the last 100 million years. I also just love giant anteaters." YouTube Thumbnail To ...

Some mammals evolved to eat only ants and termites. It happened at least twelve times. These animals developed special ...

Animals come in all different shapes and sizes and have evolved in diverse and unique ways. To adapt to the food in their environment, animals have developed unique tongue shapes and lengths. Because ...

And once a mammal becomes an obligate ant-eater, it usually doesn’t go back. In fact, almost all lineages that adopted this diet stayed that way. Only one group, the elephant shrew genus Macroscelides ...