Dire Anteater

The dire anteater is a formidable foe to face. Standing around twenty feet long and weighing over three tons, the dire anteater is an enormous mammal. Possessing enormous claws that they can slice through the toughest of stone, dire anteaters can make short work out of any group of attacking party of adventurers. Adventurers have been surprised before by the fact they still retain the long tongue of a normal anteater but instead this long tongue doubles as a whip they can use to restrain potential threats and constrict them like some form of python.

One trait that adventurers have been surprised before by is that dire anteaters retained their normal relatives scent glands. When they wish to retreat from a fight they can expel a disgusting aroma that one explorer wrote as quote, "As if a thousand troglodytes had the greatest argument of all time in a pile of dead fish and cat urine." Suffice to say, rarely do many animals stick around after this chemical cocktail is unleashed.

Dire anteaters share much of the same dietary habits of their normal relatives, albeit sized for their colossal appetite. Dire anteaters have been known to feed on giant insects such as giant ants or more monstrous beings like the ankheg. One account tells of a band of adventurers trapped within an ankheg burrow only to be saved when a dire anteater tore it's way into the nest and devoured the monstrosity alive. Some groups of cavers have learned one of the more favored prey of dire anteaters is the cave fisher, much like how a wide variety of people enjoy the delectable flesh of these creatures. 

The main prey of dire anteaters is of course, the giant ant. Dire anteaters cannot rely on the same methods of their normal relatives and still have a set of molarlike teeth to crush their insectoid preys chitinous shell.