The US space agency lander's HP3 "mole" was designed to dig up to 5m into the ground and began burrowing last week. But controllers back on Earth called a halt to operations when no progress was ...

A mole spends almost his entire life underground looking for and eating earthworms, insects and grubs. Voles, primarily vegetarian, live and burrow underground but forage for food above ground.

As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young. Worker animals dig the burrows that the whole clan inhabits, using their prominent teeth and snouts.

These colorful, feathery stalks are the antennae of a mole crab, also known as a sand flea. You may have seen these little critters burrowing into the sand at the beach as the waves wash over the ...

“Moles feed day and night, and burrowing occurs year-round. They do not hibernate,” says Robert Pierce, PhD, state extension fisheries and wildlife specialist at the University of Missouri.

Moles do feed on your crops. But, it is their burrowing activity that concerns farmers. The ridges make mowing difficult in case of lawns, and for crops the root system is affected. Their activity ...

Chris Packham uses a man-made burrow to observe the ways that moles have adapted for life underground. He explains how they require less oxygen than other mammals and, though they have poor ...

Adorned with a light-pink tail, the Cedar Key mole skink lives exclusively on the shorelines of the Cedar Key islands, along roughly 10 miles of Florida’s Gulf Coast. The lizards burrow in dry sand ...