At first glance, an anteater looks like a creature imagined by someone mixing parts from different animals. It has a long, narrow snout, a tongue that seems far too long to be real, shaggy fur, ...

Anteaters are very good animals. They somehow pull off the whole “slurp up ants with their sticky, noodly, bendy straw tongues” so confidently you forget how weird that is. And scientists agree that, ...