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Not everything is as scary as it looks, like one curious-looking critter known as the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata), which calls Ontario home. This semiaquatic mammal can be found in wet ...

The star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) is a strong candidate for the strangest nose in the animal kingdom. It’s star-shaped rostrum is made up of 22 nasal appendages that it uses to snuffle ...

Catania first saw a star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) in a children’s book. Later as a 10-year-old, he found a dead one near a stream close to his home in Columbia, Md.

They compared their results with genomes in other animals, as well as specific genetic changes found in the American star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata); another critter with ovotestes.

Then there is the bizarre star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata, the only tentacled mammal, whose nose contains 30,000 microscopic sensory organs and which probably “sees” the world through touch.

Star-nosed moles, Condylura cristata, have an incredible sense of touch in their tentacled schnozzes and are among the world’s fastest foragers.

Notes: Another mole species, the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata), has been collected in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia and has been reported in Florida.

The star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) is one of them and it has one of nature’s most unusual noses. Its snout ends in a ring of 22 fleshy tentacles that are loaded with touch sensors.

It won’t win any beauty contests, but in terms of talent, the weird-looking star-nosed mole is the one to beat. The little mole, scientifically known as Condylura cristata, commonly lives in the ...

Here I describe a mechanism for underwater sniffing used by the semi-aquatic star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) and water shrew (Sorex palustris).