JOHANNESBURG – A new study says hotter temperatures caused by climate change are taking their toll on the aardvark, whose diet of ants and termites is becoming scarcer because of reduced rainfall. The ...

Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) are probably the most endearingly doofy-looking animals ever to grace the African continent. These Seussian snufflers look like someone threw an anteater, a rabbit, a pig, ...

Aardvarks are mammals that look like they were made from parts of other animals. An aardvark has a long snout that ends with a pig-like nose, rabbit-like ears and a tail similar to a kangaroo's. Yet ...

Aardvark feces have revealed the true peril the species faces from climate change. Scientists from Oregon State University have found the study of aardvark poop to be very useful in discovering how ...

An aardvark sniffing around grasslands. The mammals eat termites and ants and build underground burrows that other animals use for shelter. “Everyone had heard of aardvarks and they are considered ...

As he proves in a priceless November 24 TikTok video, this aardvark is one of Whipsnade Zoo's sleepiest residents. One of the UK conservation zoo's animal caretakers recorded the wholesome moment when ...

Home: Africa, south of the Sahara Desert. Diet: Omnivore. Termites and ants are their preferred food. An aardvark can reportedly eat 50,000 termites in one meal. Average life span in captivity: 23 ...

Climate change is expected to bring more frequent droughts and heat waves to Africa’s Kalahari Desert. And aardvarks might not be able to cope. Jason G. Goldman reports. The aardvark is a rare ...

Aardvarks may struggle to survive as climate change heats up their habitat. New research finds that in times of drought, the burrowing African animals can't adapt enough to survive. In fact, out of 6 ...

Aardvarks prove to be highly susceptible to the warmer and drier climates that are predicted for the western parts of southern Africa in the future. During the study of a number of aardvarks, all but ...

Robyn Hetem receives funding from South Africa’s National Research Foundation. Nora Marie Weyer is affiliated with the Aardvark section of the IUCN/SSC - Afrotheria Specialist Group. Aardvarks are ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Little is known about Africa's elusive aardvarks, but new research says they are vulnerable to climate change like many other species. Hotter temperatures are taking their toll on ...