Pangolins

Animal: Pangolins 

Overshadowed by: armadillos

Classification: mammal  

Scientific name: Pholidota

Endangered status: very endangered

Habitat: Forests, savannas, and grasslands in Asia, and Africa.

Predators: leopards, and hyenas

Size: 30 to 40 lbs and 12 to 39 in long

Diet: termites, ants, worms, bee larva, and earth worms

Hunting strategy: digs through their nests then slurps them up with their tongues.

Closest relatives: bears, wolfs, and hyenas.
AKA: scaly aardvarks

Facts: 1 pangolin can eat 70 million insects each year, pangolins, like aardvarks, live in burrows, pangolins can also live in nests in trees, they don't have teeth and have bad eye sight due to small eyes, pangolin scales are made out of the same substance as our finger nails, their tongues are longer than their bodes, can release a smell much like that of a skunk.

Low Land Streaked Tenrecs

Animal: Low land streaked tenrecs
Overshadowed by: Porcupines
Scientific name: Hemicentetes semispinosus
Predators: Dumeril's boa, Malagasy ring tailed mongoose, Malagasy fossas, and Malagasy cives
Habitat: Only found on Madagascar's east side
Diet: mostly earth worms or similar animals otherwise small invertebrates.
Classification: mammal
Size: 4.41 to 9.87 pounds and around 5.51 inches long
Hunting strategy: stomps to invoke earth worm activity then digs them up and eats them.
Endangered status: right in the middle
Closest relatives: other tenrecs like the high land streaked tenrec, and the common tenrec.
Facts: The low land streaked tenrecs live in small groups, can rub their retractable quills together to communicate, can drop body temperature to the surrounding temperature, the low land streaked tenrec has no tail, and they are active at day and night.

Aardvarks

Animal: aardvarks
Overshadowed by: anteaters
Scientific name: orycteropus afer
Predators: lions, leopards, African wild dogs, hyenas, and pythons  
Classification: mammal
size: 88 to 140 lbs
diet: mostly termites and ants, but sometimes small mammals, and is a carnivore.
Hunting strategy: digs through termite mounds and uses their long tongues to slurp up the insects
population: not even close to endangered                  
closest relatives: elephant,elephant shrew, manatees, hyrax, dugongs, golden moles, and tenrec.
AKA: living fossil, and earth pig.
Facts: aardvarks tongues can be up to 12 in long,  aardvarks can dig a burro 2ft deep in 30sec,  an aardvark can give birth to 1 cub per year, aardvarks can live up to 23 years in captivity, aardvarks are the only living species of tubuild, and aardvarks live in burros under the African savanna, grasslands, and forest.