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-Main App and API server for Fossorial
+# Pangolin
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+Main app and API server for Fossorial.
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+Under construction! Please check back soon!
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+## What is a fossorial? 
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+A fossorial animal is one adapted to digging which lives primarily but not solely, underground. Some examples are badgers, naked mole-rats, clams, meerkats, and mole salamanders, as well as many beetles, wasps, and bees. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossorial)
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+All of our fossorial animal names come from the good people at [animalia.bio](https://animalia.bio). They kindly donated their curated list of [fossorial animals](https://animalia.bio/fossorial-animals) found on their website and provided permission to use their images. 
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+Thanks again to Ivan and the team there!