A fossorial animal (from Latin fossor 'digger') is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground. Examples of...

subterranean, and those with limited adaptations to a fossorial lifestyle sub-fossorial. Some organisms are fossorial to aid in temperature regulation while others...

The Spalacidae, or spalacids, are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. They are native to eastern Asia, the Horn of Africa...

The fossorial giant rat (Gyldenstolpia fronto) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Argentina and Brazil but was determined...

Scelotes uluguruensis, the Uluguru fossorial skink, is a species of lizard which is endemic to Tanzania. Scelotes uluguruensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile...

habitat, including human-made environments. Species can be arboreal, fossorial (burrowing), saltatorial/ricochetal (leaping on their hind legs), or semiaquatic...

taxonomic grouping, being united by their squat bodies and adaptions for fossorial activity. All belong to the caniform suborder of carnivoran mammals. The...

into a ball or fanned out like leaves to sense odours. Many species are fossorial, with legs adapted for digging. In some groups males (and sometimes females)...

on their forelegs that they use to grasp females. Other beetles have fossorial legs widened and often spined for digging. Species with such adaptations...

The mole-like rice tenrec (Oryzorictes hova), also known as the fossorial tenrec or hova rice tenrec, is a species of mammal in the tenrec family. Like...

The broad-headed spiny rat (Clyomys laticeps) is a spiny rat species from South America. The etymology of the species name is the Latin word laticeps meaning...

found in the Australian interior. They are small fossorial marsupials that anatomically converge on fossorial placental mammals, such as extant golden moles...

Ichthyophis go through a metamorphosis in which aquatic larva transition into fossorial adults, which involves a loss of the lateral line. More recently diverged...

large front legs, a flattened skull, and a reduced tail—all features of a fossorial (burrowing) lifestyle. In the early Miocene (about 24 mya), castorids...

fisher, tayra, and martens are partially arboreal, while badgers are fossorial. A number of mustelids have aquatic lifestyles, ranging from semiaquatic...

leafcutter bees, alkali bees and digger bees. Most solitary bees are fossorial, digging nests in the ground in a variety of soil textures and conditions...

Oryctodromeus, some ornithischian species seem to have led a partially fossorial (burrowing) lifestyle. Many modern birds are arboreal (tree climbing)...

freshwater, wetland or terrestrial ecosystems (such as riparian woodland, fossorial and even arboreal habitats). Their life cycle typically starts out as...

solifuges may be more sedentary or on the move. Sedentary species are often fossorial, living in relatively permanent burrows underground. Transitory species...

head with a pointed snout and a plump, rounded body. Because of this fossorial existence, it was first described in 2003, being new to the scientific...

native to Asia. They live in various freshwater habitats and some have a fossorial lifestyle. Four recognized species are placed in this genus: M. albus...

semierect, unlike the fully erect posture of most other notosuchians. A fossorial, or burrowing, lifestyle for Simosuchus has been suggested in its initial...

the evolution of the shell may have originally been for digging and a fossorial lifestyle. The oldest known members of the Pleurodira lineage are the...

vertebrates live above ground (ignoring aquatic species), many species are fossorial, that is, they live in soil, such as most blind snakes. The chemistry...

than the male and lives years longer. The cobalt blue tarantula is a fossorial species and spends nearly all of its time in deep burrows of its own construction...

range in length from 10 to 100 centimetres (4 to 40 inches). All are fossorial (adapted for burrowing). Five families and 39 genera are recognized. The...

occupy a broad range of ecosystems from tropical forests to tundras. Fossorial, arboreal, and semiaquatic murid species occur, though most are terrestrial...

this habitat have made some remarkable adaptations. Most of them are fossorial, spending the hot dry months aestivating in deep burrows. While there...

Coryphomys Tenerife giant rat, an extinct species, Canariomys bravoi Fossorial giant rat, Kunsia fronto The Giant Rat of Sumatra, a giant rat featured...

oral aperture. All species in the family Typhlopidae are fossorial and feed on social fossorial invertebrates such as termites and ants. The tracheal lung...