Students in NorCal recently set out to search for this particularly rare shrew, which was discovered 100 years ago.

On Friday, the Ojai Raptor Center released a rehabilitated burrowing owl into UCSB's Coil Oil Point open space.

but records are few and the absence of the woodland vole from many small mammal surveys suggests that populations are small and widely separated. The difficulties associated with locating a small ...

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.

Moles, with their giant flapper hands, might be the cutest of the burrowing mammals. But if you've got mole tunnels and hills throughout your yard, you may have a different attitude about them.

Cape Coral boasts the greatest density of Florida burrowing owls – tiny birds of prey that prefer to live life underground – ...

A burrowing owl who was injured and nursed back to health at the Ojai Raptor Center (ORC) has a new home at a Goleta nature ...

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.

Desantis says that to survive, the owls mostly eat bugs and rely on burrowing mammals to dig their tunnels, both of which are declining due to poison and pesticides. "All the flat places in ...