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 ...

The star-nosed mole blows and re-inhales air bubbles underwater as fast as five to ten times per second to track prey. Habitat: Star-nosed moles are found in a variety of habitats with moist soil ...

The star-nosed mole, which resides in the bogs and wetlands of the eastern U.S. and Canada, is roughly the size of a rat when fully-grown. It’s functionally blind and eats insects, worms and ...

In the case of the star-nosed mole, the organs have more than 100,000 touch-sensitive nerve endings. Taken together, this means the animal's nose is the most touch-sensitive organ among vertebrates.

The star-nosed mole is a mammal that does exactly what it says on the tin, sporting a bizarre snoot that has 22 fleshy tentacles in an astral arrangement. The flapping mechanism can do more than ...

And the many tricks of the star-nosed mole don’t stop there. These moles can use their noses to push bubbles of air in and out so that they can smell underwater, which has made them highly ...

Star-nosed moles' namesake sniffers — which look kind of like the explodey-faced Demogorgon from Stranger Things — are lined with a staggering 25,000 tiny sensory receptors in touch organs, ...

Here I came across the obituary for Cornell biologist William J. Hamilton Jr., who, as it turned out, studied star-nosed moles during his Ph.D. and published a paper on their natural history in 1931.