Visually, you can imagine the animal as a ‘sandworm’ from the ‘Dune’ science fiction novels and their movie adaptation.” Prof ...

Marine, terrestrial, and “fossorial” environments have been the best contenders. Fossorial animals, like badgers and mole salamanders, lead a life of burrowing. And according to new research ...

Known as fossorial animals because they live underground, the salamanders carve networks of tunnels in the soft soil surrounding the rock outcroppings. Because they breathe through their skin ...

Burrowing owls, as their name suggests, nest in underground burrows excavated by semi-fossorial animals, such as ground squirrels, prairie dogs and badgers. Not surprisingly, burrowing owls often ...

Zoologists and paleontologists refer to burrowing animals as fossorial, and the mechanical requirements of digging often causes distantly-related animals to evolve robust limbs, flattened claws ...