Its eponymous nose, which looks like a fleshy pink starfish sticking out of its face, is the most sensitive organ of any mammal’s on Earth. The mole is about the size of a mouse and the front of its ...

The mole's nose has tentacle-like appendages that are covered in more than 25,000 microscopic receptors. Ken Catania, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University, ...