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The boodie (Bettongia lesueur), also known as the burrowing bettong or Lesueur's rat-kangaroo, [4] is a small, furry, rat-like mammal native to Australia. Once common throughout the continent, it is now restricted to a few coastal islands.
Its nose is made up of more turbinate bones than any other mammal, with between nine and 11, compared to dogs with four to five. [11] With a large quantity of turbinate bones, the aardvark has more space for the moist epithelium, which is the location of the olfactory bulb. [11] The nose contains nine olfactory bulbs, more than any other mammal ...
A large variety of vertebrates construct or use burrows in many types of substrate; burrows can range widely in complexity. Some examples of vertebrate burrowing animals include a number of mammals, amphibians, fish (dragonet and lungfish [3]), reptiles, and birds (including small dinosaurs [4]). Mammals are perhaps most well known for burrowing.
Fossil records show that some other now-extinct mammal groups also had the dental venom delivery system, indicating that the solenodon's most distinct characteristic may have been a more general ancient mammalian characteristic that has been lost in most modern mammals and is only retained in a couple of very ancient lineages. [16]
The closely related Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) is the only other known eusocial mammal. [10] [11] Naked mole-rats lack pain sensitivity in their skin, and have very low metabolic and respiratory rates. The animal also is remarkable for its longevity and resistance to cancer and oxygen deprivation.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. Order of mammals Rodent Temporal range: Late Paleocene – recent Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Capybara Springhare Golden-mantled ground squirrel North American beaver House mouse Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Mirorder ...
Golden moles are small insectivorous burrowing mammals endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. They comprise the family Chrysochloridae (the only family in the suborder Chrysochloridea ) and as such they are taxonomically distinct from the true moles , family Talpidae , and other mole -like families, all of which, to various degrees, they resemble as a ...
Many groups of burrowing animals (pink fairy armadillos, tuco-tucos, mole rats, mole crickets, pygmy mole crickets, and mole crabs) have independently developed close physical similarities with moles due to convergent evolution; two of these are so similar to true moles, they are commonly called and thought of as "moles" in common English ...