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Aardvark

What’s the first word in the dictionary and the last living species of its order of tube-teethed animals? If you said, “aardvark,” you should be writing science articles instead of reading them!

The word aardvark comes from the Afrikaans language, meaning “Earth pig.” The aardvark has a rubbery snout like a pig, ears like a rabbit, the tongue

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