Scientists are making a mountain out of a mole hill after finding a rare breed of sightless burrowing mammal not seen for the better part of a century. Researchers spent two years searching the sand ...

Source: John Brighenti, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Naked mole-rats are weird. Native to East Africa, they live underground in highly ordered and hierarchical colonies with a ...

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WEBVTT YOU CAN COMMENT ON THEIR WEBSITE FOR THE NEXT MONTH. LISA: DOCTOR KIM HAMMOND FROM FALLS ROAD ANIMAL HOSPITAL IS HERE. AND HE JOINS US WITH -- WHO IS THIS? DR. HAMMOND : IT IS A REALLY ...

Animals are awesome. But which is the ultimate champion? Over seven weeks, we are pitting some of nature’s most remarkable creatures against one another in a series of virtual battles. Two animals per ...

If you’ve started to notice signs of tunneling in your yard, there’s a good chance that you have a mole infestation. For the most part, moles are small, harmless mammals that spend their lives beneath ...

There's a good reason why ears and eyes come in pairs. Receiving stimuli from two points of input is necessary to pinpoint the location of objects. Most animals, including people, can hear and see in ...

Q: I have mole mounds in my lawn. I went out this morning to enjoy the sunrise as I sipped my coffee, and the first thing I spotted was a mole mound right in the middle of my lawn. How can I get rid ...