A study of moles reveals that cold weather -- not lack of food -- drives the rare phenomenon of reversible brain shrinkage in mammals. A study of moles reveals that cold weather -- not lack of food -- ...

The star-nosed mole has one of the "weirdest" snouts in the animal kingdom. Now researchers are uncovering fascinating new insights into this unusual body part. The star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata ...

An international team of scientists has for the first time identified two new underground mammals that could have been living, undetected, in eastern Turkey for up to 3 million years. They say it is ...

Scientists are making a mountain out of a mole hill after finding a rare breed of sightless burrowing mammal not seen for the better part of a century. Researchers spent two years searching the sand ...

Rafael Jiménez Medina learned how to hunt elusive Iberian moles in the fields of southern Spain in the 1980s, when he was a young PhD student in genetics at the University of Granada. A local hunter ...

It’s giving “going underground” a whole new meaning. Just when you thought you’d seen it all, scientists have identified new creatures in eastern Turkey that could have been living there for 3 million ...

Most mammals can hear in stereo, locating sounds in their environment by comparing the inputs between both ears. Now it appears some mammals use their nostrils the same way for finding smells.