is a pangolin the same as an armadillo
Pangolin Pangolins were formerly[when?] classified with various other orders, for example Xenarthra, which includes the ordinary anteaters, sloths, and the similar-looking armadillos. Newer genetic evidence, however, indicates their closest living relatives are the Carnivora with which they form the clade Ferae.[47][48] Some palaeontologists, placing Ernanodonta in a separate suborder of Cimolesta near Pholidota,[49] have classified the pangolins in the order Cimolesta, together with several extinct groups indicated (â€ ) below, though this idea has fallen out of favor since cimolestids have been determined to have not been placental mammals.[50] A 2015 study has supported close affinities between pangolins and the extinct group Creodonta, as well as many former Cimolestans (Cimolestes itself was recovered as a far more basal mammal).[51]