Etymology

Brazilian aardvark

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The story

The name was picked up following its insertion into Wikipedia in July 2008 by Dylan Breves as a joke. The hoax was uncovered in 2014, but some use of the name has continued.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.