If your yard is riddled with bumps and ridges, you may have some underground neighbors: Moles! These small mammals spend most ...

Moles aren’t all bad – they aerate the soil, deposit natural fertilizer and eat grubs that can harm your landscaping. Unless ...

Moles, rats and other animals were lost to science — until now : Short Wave Historic numbers of animals across the globe have become endangered or pushed to extinction. But some of these species ...

Beneath the deserts of Australia, a tiny and mysterious mammal glides through the sand-the marsupial mole. There are two ...

Moles in your yard offer benefits like soil aeration, free fertilization, and pest control by eating harmful insect grubs.

We expel carbon dioxide as waste. Naked mole rats bathe their brains in it to prevent seizures. The unique animals thrive underground but cannot handle the lack of carbon dioxide above.

The rediscovery of De Winton’s golden mole offers the chance to learn more about a tiny mammal that, so far, has been poorly understood by the scientific community.

Moles are mammals in the Talpidae family. This family is made up of 17 genera and 42 species of moles and desmans — the mole’s aquatic cousins. These animals are found throughout most of: ...

De Winton's golden mole was last seen 87 years ago on Port Nolloth beach, a mile long sandy stretch of South Africa's northwest coast. Its survival is threatened by diamond mining in the coastal ...

De Winton's golden mole (Cryptochloris wintoni) is an elusive blind mole that "swims" through sand, lives in inaccessible burrows and has a shimmering, iridescent coat.It has only ever been ...

A thermal image of a star-nosed mole. This hamster-sized mammal is renowned for its strange snout that features 22 appendages. Glenn J. Tattersall/Kevin L. Campbell ...

It’s not anywhere near other animals we call moles or even mole-rats. Notoryctes are true marsupials instead of some not-quites, the researchers confirm January 1 in Science Advances.