These signs hint at the existence of a network of secret tunnels, a daytime lair where one of Africa’s most fantastical animals slumber beneath the ground: the aardvark. Of course, as is usually ...

The research team considered other burrowing animals native to the ... Helm et al, Pleistocene aardvark (Orycteropus afer) burrow traces on South Africa's Cape coast, Quaternary Research (2025).