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 ...

The burrowing owl is the only owl species that lives underground, digging its own burrow or taking over abandoned ones made by other animals ...

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 ...

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 ...