Subterranean
Living underground, using reduced eyes, shovel-like limbs, and sensitive snouts to navigate darkness.
Common Earthworm
A hermaphrodite that lives in deep vertical burrows and generally leaves them only to feed and mate.
European Mole
A velvety black digger that lives underground, in tunnel networks that can run hundreds of metres.
Golden Mole
The sand-swimmer with no visible eyes, and a middle-ear bone denser than any other land mammal's on record.
Naked Mole-Rat
The nearly hairless, essentially cold-blooded tunnel digger that shrugs off acid and chili burns, survives 18 minutes with no oxygen at all, and outlives every other rodent on record.
Ringed Caecilian
A legless burrower about 40 cm long whose newborns eat their mother's skin and drink milk from her vent.
Star-Nosed Mole
A semi-aquatic mole armed with twenty-two fleshy sensory tentacles that can identify and eat a piece of prey in as little as 120 milliseconds.