In other words, burrowing on other worlds is hard. But that didn't stop the team in Guangdong from trying. Their robot is meant to be much more similar to an actual mole than either HP3 or PLUTO was.

As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young. Worker animals dig the burrows that the whole clan inhabits, using their prominent teeth and snouts.

Individuals living in wet soils burrow above and below the water table, and moles near water usually have tunnels that open at, or below, the water surface. Enlarged, dry sections of the tunnels serve ...

Richard Burrows evaded justice for decades after stealing the identity of a terminally ill acquaintance – until detectives ...

Moles might be small, but their impact on a garden can be significant. With their constant burrowing, they create unsightly ...

Adorned with a light-pink tail, the Cedar Key mole skink lives exclusively on the shorelines of the Cedar Key islands, along roughly 10 miles of Florida’s Gulf Coast. The lizards burrow in dry sand ...

It's also the southernmost U.S. mole skink, found mainly in Dry Tortugas and the Lower Keys along Florida's shoreline, living in sandy areas where it burrows deep for refuge. But this little lizard is ...

Chris Packham uses a man-made burrow to observe the ways that moles have adapted for life underground. He explains how they require less oxygen than other mammals and, though they have poor ...