TIL Anteaters and Aardvarks are in completely different Superorders

Anteaters evolved in Central and South America and are in the superorder Xenarthra, while aardvarks evolved in sub-Saharan Africa and are a part of the superorder Afrotheria. I'd always assumed the two names were just synonyms for each other, but the similarity in their niche and morphology is just convergence.

Technically you'd have better luck mating an anteater with a sloth, or an aardvark with a manatee, than you'd have mating an anteater with an aardvark. Even more technically, none of these would work but it helps demonstrate how distantly related the two similar-seeming species truly are.