In other words, burrowing on other worlds is hard. But that didn't stop the team in Guangdong from trying. Their robot is meant to be much more similar to an actual mole than either HP3 or PLUTO was.

When your garden is suddenly full of small mounds of soil you'll probably want to master the tricks behind how to get rid of ...

As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young. Worker animals dig the burrows that the whole clan inhabits, using their prominent teeth and snouts.

Individuals living in wet soils burrow above and below the water table, and moles near water usually have tunnels that open at, or below, the water surface. Enlarged, dry sections of the tunnels serve ...

It's also the southernmost U.S. mole skink, found mainly in Dry Tortugas and the Lower Keys along Florida's shoreline, living in sandy areas where it burrows deep for refuge. But this little lizard is ...

Chester Crown Court heard how, between 1968 and 1995, Richard Burrows had systematically abused 24 young boys across the Cheshire, West Midlands and West Mercia areas. But that reckoning came some 27 ...

A compilation of short films for primary school-aged children, looking at Britain's best-loved burrowing animals. Find out more about how moles, badgers, rabbits and their babies live underground ...