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Evolution Keeps Producing Anteaters, and New Research Finally Reveals the Strange Reason Why
The Debrief ^ | July 19, 2025 | Micah Hanks

Posted on 07/21/2025 12:43:59 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 07/21/2025 12:44:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Fun article and lovely anteater. Thank you.


2 posted on 07/21/2025 12:48:28 PM PDT by JayGalt (For America!)
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Evolution Keeps Producing Anteaters, because it keeps producing ants and termites...................


3 posted on 07/21/2025 12:52:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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With such a tremendous (endless really) supply of ants and termites it makes sense that there would be a constant supply of critters developing to eat them.


4 posted on 07/21/2025 12:57:06 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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Evolution has a brain? Wow.


5 posted on 07/21/2025 12:57:27 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Red Badger

There is some comfort in the appreciation that a lifetime is a moment in the earth’s passage of time.


6 posted on 07/21/2025 1:00:24 PM PDT by JayGalt (For America!)
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In the Bible, a thousand years is as a day.

So our entire lifetimes are like just a couple of hours............


7 posted on 07/21/2025 1:06:58 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Nature’s zotters.


8 posted on 07/21/2025 1:07:37 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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9 posted on 07/21/2025 1:10:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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10 posted on 07/21/2025 1:11:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Yes. Perspective.


11 posted on 07/21/2025 1:12:52 PM PDT by JayGalt (For America!)
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12 posted on 07/21/2025 1:15:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Exactly.


13 posted on 07/21/2025 1:19:29 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Red Badger

Had a pair of anteater boots once...


14 posted on 07/21/2025 1:51:42 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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Sometimes convergence converges.

Ants have been around for a long time. I wonder if there were any dinovarks?

15 posted on 07/21/2025 2:19:56 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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Don’t want one as a pet.
But, anteaters are fascinating looking creatures.


16 posted on 07/21/2025 2:23:06 PM PDT by sjmjax
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXD9HnrNrvk

Three minute skit from The Onion about a man who studies anteaters.


17 posted on 07/21/2025 2:24:39 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (When the night falls, it falls on me. And when the day breaks, I'm in pieces.)
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To: JayGalt

Evolution keeps producing liberals or better yet de-evolution. In breeding on the left has significantly increased since COVID.


18 posted on 07/21/2025 2:26:48 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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“Although anteaters are commonly grouped alongside other mammals that consume social insects like aardvarks and echidnas, they aren’t closely related to them.”

“The perceived similarities are more a result of convergent evolution”

So we was wrong. It’s not divergent, must be convergent.

No such thing as Edentata.


19 posted on 07/21/2025 2:44:31 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Termites as human foods-A comprehensive review

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37350054/


20 posted on 07/21/2025 2:53:16 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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