Jerboas and kangaroo rats evolved in different places on the planet, but adapted to living comfortably in deserts and fleeing ...

The northern pocket gophers of Mount St. Helens are small creatures ... buried down in their burrows, survived the eruption. Following the eruption, the gophers tunneled out of their burrows ...

Beddes said pocket gophers make volcano mounds and tunnels. “I want to differentiate them from metal voles because the voles make little race tracks in your lawn, and they’ll burrow, but they don’t ...

A chubby body, short tail and legs — I realized that I was seeing a plains pocket gopher. Pocket gophers (not to be confused with the "gopher" of Minnesota fame, which is not really a gopher ...

They are experts at digging out tunnels and burrows, so much so that a single gopher can move 1 ton of soil to the surface each year. What do gophers look like? Pocket gophers get their name from ...

She went online to learn more about these mounds, discovering they were the work of pocket gophers. As a former process engineer, Dunkel started researching solutions. She tried various methods ...

Pocket gophers spend most of their time below the surface and while it is possible to see them above the ground, or peeping out of a burrow (Figure 1), the easiest way to determine the presence of ...

Officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were rattled after finding a surprise inside a gopher tortoise burrow. According to an Instagram post from FWC Research ...

They can also turn these little pockets inside out and deposit their findings in their burrow once they’re finished foraging. Pretty neat, right? Another neat trick pocket gophers can do is close ...