Historic numbers of animals across the globe have become endangered or extinct. And according to the United Nations, the rate at which species are being pushed to extinction is accelerating. But, some ...

A De Winton's golden mole. A member of the species hadn't been definitely seen since 1936. JP Le Roux Thanks to a sniffing dog and traces of DNA left in the sand, scientists have found a species of ...

Moles might be small, nearly blind, and spend their entire lives in darkness, but they’re actually some of the most impressive engineers and hunters in the animal kingdom. These tiny powerhouses have ...

Source: John Brighenti, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Naked mole-rats are weird. Native to East Africa, they live underground in highly ordered and hierarchical colonies with a ...