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

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

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

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 ...