They had stubby tails, small ears, and eyes like gophers, but, unlike most burrowing mammals, they had the super long, quickly growing front teeth of modern beavers. Visitors to Agate Fossil Beds ...

Other animals benefit from their labors. Burrows may be shared by snakes, burrowing owls, and even rare black-footed ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs in their own dwellings. Family groups (a male ...

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.

According to Li Quanguo, Li Ruoshuang's advisor, these extinct early mammals had diverse lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling, and burrowing to gliding through treetops like modern flying ...

Burrowing owls have suffered significant habitat loss due to exurban sprawl, conversion of grasslands to agricultural lands, development of large-scale wind and solar energy infrastructure and the ...

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.

Florida Atlantic University received a permit to relocate burrowing owls from the construction site of a new residence hall. Although the owl population on campus has increased, there are concerns ...