“Anteaters are almost exclusively myrmecophagous. We think the selective pressures in this diet led to a gradual stretching of the tongue.” A stretching of the tongue whose incredible results ...

However, unlike straws, anteaters rarely drink water. They receive most of their hydration and other nutrients from eating alone. Using their tongue, which can grow up to 2 feet long, anteaters ...

The giant anteater is a peculiar excavator ... to tear a hole wide enough to slurp up insects with its 2-foot tongue. The creature was neither dinosaur nor mammal, but a small, insect-munching ...

Bissell was born in 2008. Mojo was born in 2005. Giant anteaters have no teeth, but they have very large and long noses and tongues. The tongue of a giant anteater can be up to two feet long.