The star-nosed mole has a rose-colored ring of fleshy, retractable tentacles surrounding its nose. This nasal disc is bilaterally symmetrical with 11 projections on each side. Equally distinct is the ...

Image by Joel Sartore/ Photo Ark. The remarkable nose of the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata). Seeing a star-nosed mole in person is special. Discovering new insights into the biology of this ...

The star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata, is one of 39 mole species. Moles are small, furry, underground, tunnel-dwelling mammals that feast mostly on insects. Star-nosed moles share many similarities ...

The fur is black or blackish-brown and has a purplish-brown sheen. The hairy-tailed mole lacks the fleshy nasal tentacles of the star-nosed mole, but both possess fossorial specializations, e.g., ...

Like other moles, the star-nosed mole lives underground in burrows feeding on invertebrates like earthworms. It can’t see very well so it uses its remarkable nose to hunt. Each of the 22 ...

Discover how olms, deep-sea lobsters, and the star-nosed mole rely on heightened senses to survive and flourish in their lightless environments. Did you know that there are animals that don't see ...

The star-nosed mole is hunted by everything from domestic cats to hawks to foxes — a fact that would seemingly make this blind animal’s continued survival impossible. But the fleshy tentacles ...

The blind star-nosed mole may not seem like the ultimate fighter, but when it's hungry it can find, catch and eat its prey faster than the human eye can follow! Its fleshy nose acts as an extra ...

"Their body plan and limbs and stuff look just like the European mole or the star-nosed mole," he says, "but they are completely unrelated." Like kangaroos, marsupial moles have a pouch ...