Google, are aardvarks and anteaters one in the same?
FACT: Aardvarks and anteaters are not a related species.
: O What? What? What???
Anteaters live in Central and South America while Aardvarks kick it in the grasslands of Africa. They have never even met yet, almost simultaneously, developed the same specialized diet and similar mechanism for eating. (This is known as convergent evolution). Anteaters have long bushy fur and live above the ground while aardvarks have short coarse fur and prefer to burrow underground (mmmyes.....). But even more interesting, an anteater is capable of killing a jaguar and aardvark is the first word in the English dictionary.
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