aardvark

People have examined aardvark DNA in the past for studies of mammalian evolution, but never across wild populations.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023

That was different from some of the other offers he’d received to bring his popular aardvark character to TV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

For the first time in more than 35 years, an aardvark pup was born at the San Diego Zoo.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

“She is very active, and was using her sharp claws to dig like an adult aardvark, just hours after her birth,” lead wildlife care specialist Cari Inserra said in the statement.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

For instance, one African melon species is so well adapted to being eaten by a hyena-like animal called the aardvark that most melons of that species grow on the latrine sites of aardvarks.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Originally known as shrews, the small African mammals are more closely related to elephants, manatees and aardvarks and were officially renamed as sengi in 1998.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

Despite often being compared to pigs and South American anteater, aardvarks are not related to them.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023

The scientists examined animals that lost their full body hair along with others, such as bison, guinea pigs, aardvarks and bears, that have retained full coats of fur.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2023

I haven’t had any encounters with aardvarks, although I think there may be one that lives in an apartment across the street.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

Human latrines, like those of aardvarks, may have been a testing ground of the first unconscious crop breeders.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond