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lucyv
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Is it called Pangolin because pangolin's have scale-y tails?
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fossorialowen
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Yes and they are a "Fossorial" animal. A fossorial animal is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground. It was kind of a fun name to call out the tunneling. Fossorial is our company name.
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