This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The hairy-tailed mole, aka Brewer’s mole, is the only member of the genus Parascalops. They hail from northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. They suffer the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments, construction sites watering the soil down and drowning the moles […]

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