EditorialMyopotamus coypus, Print, The coypu, also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent. Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Myocastor is actually nested within Echimyidae, the family of the spi...
EditorialA garden with fencing, which groundhogs can defeat with their burrowing skills, at the 65-acre Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, where Christine Maher, a behavioral ecologist, has tagged no fewer than 513 of them and is one of the few scientists to study their behavior, in Falmouth, Maine, Sept. 22, 2021. (Greta Rybus/The New York Times)
EditorialPlatygaster multicarinatus, Print, The Round Island burrowing boa (Bolyeria multocarinata) is an extinct species of snake in the family Bolyeriidae, in the monotypic genus Bolyeria, which was endemic to Mauritius. The species was last seen on Round Isl...
EditorialBufo scaber, Print, Duttaphrynus scaber (common names: Schneider's (dwarf) toad, and for the now-synonymized Bufo fergusonii, Ferguson's toad and Boulenger's burrowing toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in peninsular India ...
EditorialMyopotamus coypus, Print, The coypu, also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent. Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Myocastor is actually nested within Echimyidae, the family of the spi...
EditorialCorystes cassivelaunus, Print, Corystes cassivelaunus, the masked crab, helmet crab or sand crab, is a burrowing crab of the North Atlantic and North Sea from Portugal to Norway, which also occurs in the Mediterranean Sea. It may grow up to 4 centimetr...
EditorialEuropean rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit or burrowing hare, Lepus cuniculus). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1836.
EditorialEuropean rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit or burrowing hare, Lepus cuniculus). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1836.