Gophers (Geomyidae) are a family of rodents, with 41 known species burrowing through North and Central America. These furry ...

What other incredible gopher facts should you know? Gophers are ground dwellers, making them fossorial animals. Fossorial or burrowing animals live primarily underground, but they do come to the ...

Fennec foxes live in underground burrows during the day to avoid the desert heat. They often dig their own burrows, with multiple entrances and exits ...

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

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 ...

It’s either a badger or a raccoon that lost its tail.” Fossorial animals live underground, and nocturnal animals only come out at night. “Badgers eat ground squirrels, and while they aren ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Fossorial animals that dig in soil must be capable of applying great force against the substrate; therefore, unlike cursorial and climbing animals, diggers are constructed such that their legs are ...

Pangolins excavate their own burrows, and these abandoned burrows later provide a home to other fossorial animals like porcupines. Image courtesy of Priyan Perera. Mongabay: What made you choose ...