The mole snake is native to most of southern Africa. These nonvenomous colubrids are known for their ferociousness, and can deal a painful bite. Even though they face the threats of habitat loss and degradation at
The Russian desman hails from the Don, Ural, and Volga River basins in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. They prefer ponds, oxbow lakes, and slower moving streams that are densely populated with bushes, water-marsh vegetation, and
The mole cricket is part of the order Orthoptera, which includes grasshoppers and crickets. These critters can be found on every continent, sans Antarctica. They are considered a pest species of insect and are
Touted as the world’s largest known mole species, it’s the giant golden mole. There are 21 known species of golden moles and all are endemic (live nowhere else) to South Africa. They can only
The Pyrenean desman is related to shrews and moles, is semi-aquatic, and oh so odd looking. They can be found in the northern and central parts of Spain and Portugal, French Pyrenees
The mole can be found in North America, Europe (sans Ireland), Asia, and parts of Africa. They like meadows, fields, pastures, and open woodland equipped with moist, sandy, loamy
The Mexican mole lizard, aka Bipes, spends most of its time burrowing in soft soil in Western Mexico and Baja California. These creatures are neither a lizard or a snake. They are in
One of the more unusual looking creatures in the animal kingdom is the star-nosed mole. This is a small mole that lives in marshes, forests, and wetlands of North America. They have a
The marsupial mole is blind, their eyes having become reduced to vestigial (an ancestral retention that has lost all or part of its original function) lenses under the skin, and they have no external ears, just a pair of tiny holes hidden under thick hair
They live in dark tunnels, they have beady eyes, large buck teeth, nearly hairless wrinkled pink skin… this is the naked mole rat! These amazing critters live in burrows in harsh living conditions. It’s hot, low in oxygen, high in carbon dioxide, and crowded
