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Thursday January 2, 2025

Marsupial mole eating a gecko, Tanami Desert Northern Territory Australia Mike Gillam/Auscape International Pty Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo hide caption

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Science

DNA reveals secrets of Australia's elusive marsupial mole

January 2, 2025 • Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusory animals, the marsupial mole.

Scientists have learned secrets of Australia's marsupial mole

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Thursday November 30, 2023

Holy Mole-y: A sniffer dog helps rediscover a rare mole

De Winton's golden mole, a blind mole that lives beneath the sand, has been rediscovered in Port Nolloth, South Africa. The small mammal has evaded scientists for nearly 90 years, using sensitive hearing that can detect vibrations from movement above the surface. JP Le Roux hide caption

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Holy Mole-y: A sniffer dog helps rediscover a rare mole

November 30, 2023 • The De Winton's golden mole was last spotted in 1936. But with the help of a mole-sniffing dog and new environmental DNA analysis, researchers are taking it off the most wanted lost species list.

Wednesday August 31, 2022

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Short Wave

Quiz Bowl! How Animals Sense The World

August 31, 2022 • Do worms feel pain? How do otters experience the world? What are those pink appendages on the face of the star-nosed mole? We answer all these questions and more in this quiz show episode of Short Wave. Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber and producer Margaret Cirino go head-to-head answering questions based on science writer Ed Yong's new book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.

Quiz Bowl! How Animals Sense The World

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Wednesday May 9, 2012

Agent, Double Agent Or Mole? Which Was The Underwear Bomb Character?

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The Two-Way

Agent, Double Agent Or Mole? Which Was The Underwear Bomb Character?

May 9, 2012 • Many stories have called him a double agent. That doesn't seem to be correct. He was, at least, an agent. But mole might be the best word for what he was.