Thousands of kilometers from their nearest relatives, these silky anteaters eke out a living in a pocket of mangroves on Brazil’s Atlantic coast. By James Hall/Hakai Magazine Published Oct 2, 2023 ...

The first clue was the fur. While studying silky anteaters in Brazil, biologist Flávia Miranda "began to see differences between the colors of the population of the Amazon and the Atlantic forest," ...

A new anteater is calling the Buffalo Zoo home. Tupi, a 7-year-old male giant anteater, arrived in the Queen City this ...

An anteater at a Tennessee zoo tested positive for the species' first known case of rabies and was infected by a strain of the virus never before recorded in the state of Tennessee, health officials ...

In a recent study, a team of Brazilian researchers discovered six new species of silky anteater, a mammal that lives in tropical rain forests of the Amazon region and Central America. In a recent ...

When people think of cute baby animals, they often reference kittens, puppies, bear cubs or even piglets. Baby ducklings and elephants and panda bears grace the walls of children’s nurseries. Baby ...

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — For the first time ever, veterinarians identified an anteater infected with rabies. A tamanduas anteater was living at a Tennessee zoo when it became ill. In June, it stopped ...