Have you ever considered that the creatures we find most repulsive might actually be the ones we should appreciate most? National Geographic's recent article "The astonishing superpowers of nature's ...

Some animals lost their eyes over time. Others never had them at all. ... The star-nosed mole, found in North American wetlands, is famous for the star-shaped set of 22 tiny tentacles on its nose.

Animal Guide: Queen Naked Mole-Rat. October 8, 2008. ... The eyes are narrow slits, and eyesight is poor, but their hearing is acute, and they can sense vibrations; their large, ...

There's a good reason why ears and eyes come in pairs. Receiving stimuli from two points of input is necessary to pinpoint the location of objects. Most animals, including people, can hear and see ...

But the most noticeable aspect of the animal is its utterly strange appearance, dominated by its 22-tentacled ultra-sensitive snout, called a star (those aren’t its eyes and face at the center ...

What the moles don’t have are external ears or working eyes. Instead, their fur-covered face just has a raised pink fleshy “shield” structure like a big button nose on a stuffed animal.

An extremely rare blind, hairy mole has been spotted and photographed in the Australian outback. The northern marsupial mole, or kakarratul, lives in one of the most remote parts of the nation and ...

De Winton's golden mole was last seen 87 years ago on Port Nolloth beach, a mile long sandy stretch of South Africa's northwest coast. Its survival is threatened by diamond mining in the coastal ...