With a shape unlike any other and a lifestyle cloaked in nighttime secrecy, this elusive creature roams the dark with quiet ...

As insectivorous, burrowing mammals, pangolins play a key role in our ecosystem by controlling insect populations, recycling soil nutrients and sheltering other animals in their abandoned burrows.

Moles, with their giant flapper hands, might be the cutest of the burrowing mammals. But if you've got mole tunnels and hills throughout your yard, you may have a different attitude about them.

A joint research team from China and abroad has for the first time found that mammaliaforms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...

Desantis says that to survive, the owls mostly eat bugs and rely on burrowing mammals to dig their tunnels, both of which are declining due to poison and pesticides. “All the flat places in ...

Other animals benefit from their labors. Burrows may be shared by snakes, burrowing owls, and even rare black-footed ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs in their own dwellings. Family groups (a male ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," ...

They are also killed by rodenticides and collisions with wind turbines and cars. The owls rely on burrowing mammals such as ground squirrels to excavate underground burrows for nesting and roosting.

FEEDING: Burrowing owls will capture a wide variety of prey, changing food habits as location and time of year determine availability. Large insects such as dragonflies and grasshoppers comprise most ...

They can live their whole lives in the hottest and driest place on Earth without drinking a drop of water, surviving only on moisture in the small insects, reptiles and burrowing mammals they feed on.