Even he, in 14 years of searching for the Vangunu giant rat, has yet to come face-to-face ... really charismatic animals, and many people have not even heard of a golden mole," Mynhardt says.

A star-nosed mole is surely one of the world's weirdest-looking animals. If you were to come face to face with one, you might think its head had been replaced by a tiny octopus. And for an animal ...

But the first thing you probably notice about this animal is its unusual nose ... Agnieszka Bacal/ Shutterstock ‘The star is a cluster of 22 tendrils on the mole’s face,’ explains researcher Dr ...

The tentacles, which are also thought able to detect the minute electrical fields produced by aquatic animals ... moles are relatively adaptable and not currently considered endangered, but they ...

This creature, native to Syria and other parts of the Middle East, comes with a face only a goatherd ... But if ever an animal taught us not to judge a book by its cover, it’s this one. To start, ...

What the moles don’t have are external ears or working eyes. Instead, their fur-covered face just has a raised pink fleshy “shield” structure like a big button nose on a stuffed animal.

But naked mole rats can reproduce for their entire lives ... to 90 days—and compared them with the ovaries of lab mice, an animal commonly used as a model for human reproduction.