In a recent study published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, a team of Brazilian researchers discovered six new species of silky anteater, a mammal that lives in tropical rain forests of ...

Paulina struggles to open her eyes, sees strange people in her space and raises her tiny claws in warning. Despite the threat, it's hard not to want to cuddle the pint-sized furball and her mate ...

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," ...

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This is a story that begins in 1758 with the publication of the tenth edition of Systema Naturae, the magnum opus of Swedish naturalist Linnaeus (Carl Nilsson Linnaeus, 1707-78), the father of ...