In medieval Europe and early colonial America, moles were seen as a sign of demonic possession (as was everything else). The ancient Greeks and Chinese, however, used the markings to try to decipher ...

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Scientists still find thousands of new species on Earth every year, but finding a new mammal is a relative rarity. Scientists have found not one, but two new species of mole native to southeastern ...

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Presumably this natural "doping" makes the female moles aggressive and muscular, an advantage for life underground, where they have to dig burrows and fight for resources. In a study in the journal ...