Many snake species have adapted to a burrowing lifestyle, using their digging skills for protection, temperature regulation, ...

State officials are weighing listing the tiny birds as an endangered species, a decision that could have big implications for the farming and renewable energy-focused county.

They can live their whole lives in the hottest and driest place on Earth without drinking a drop of water, surviving only on moisture in the small insects, reptiles and burrowing mammals they feed on.

The mammals had dug a sett under the path between the Mortal Man Inn and the village church in Troutbeck, Cumbria, Lake District National Park Authority (LDNPA) said. Badgers are a protected ...

They are also killed by rodenticides and collisions with wind turbines and cars. The owls rely on burrowing mammals such as ground squirrels to excavate underground burrows for nesting and roosting.