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Published online 13 September 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news990916-3
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Upping the ant
The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) of South America has to be one of the strangest-looking mammals extant. A big, burly (26-kilogram) and extravagantly furred body shambles along on fierce-looking, turned-in claws, following a tiny head with an extraordinarily long, delicately tapering snout, terminating in a minute exclamation of a mouth.
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