When looking for food, the star-nosed mole moves its star so quickly that it’s just a blur to our eyes. It touches up to 12 objects per second. Star-nosed moles live in eastern North America, from ...

The hairy-tailed mole lacks the fleshy nasal tentacles of the star-nosed mole, but both possess fossorial specializations, e.g., minute eyes covered by fur; an absence of external ears; short, ...

But for some of these creatures, bad eyesight is a liability that they manage to overcome through their other unique abilities. The star-nosed mole is hunted by everything from domestic cats to ...

Chris Packham uses a man-made burrow to observe the ways that moles have adapted for life ... though they have poor eyesight, their sensitive noses and tails are used to feel underground.