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In one video, a female marmot chases away a male who got too comfortable in her burrow.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Compared with brachiopods, bivalves have greater energy demands because of their larger bodies and muscular "foot" that allows them to burrow and crawl.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Diggers are already clearing parts of the OPP complex, shaking the ruins even as volunteers and families continue to burrow for the bodies of loved ones.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

The larvae use their screwlike spines to burrow into and feed on tissue, often resulting in an infection that can kill an animal in weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Major Puff, who, after hearing the bloodcurdling scream, thought he was under attack, had pushed up against the door to block any burrow breach.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

During breeding season—roughly late April through most of August—they nest in underground burrows on offshore islands where mammalian predators such as mink, rats and foxes can’t get at them or their young.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

But wildlife experts are very familiar with the little penguins' burrows at Phillip Island and St Kilda, he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Some create burrows in the ground, others use cavities in wood such as tree hollows or fallen branches, and some nest inside plant stems or small existing holes in twigs.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

Too early in the season and the bulk of birds will not have returned, too late and they will be settled on eggs in their burrows.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

The story of the bird which had fought for Thlayli in the storm had lost nothing in the telling up and down the burrows of Efrafa.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Suddenly, the Irish tails were up and replacement prop Michael Milne burrowed over.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

During Thanksgiving week, from the soft neutral cocoon of my parents’ guest room, I burrowed into an impulsive rewatch of the BBC “Sherlock” — yes, the Benedict Cumberbatch era, all sculptural cheekbones and good outerwear.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

England finished the half, turning down a kick at goal and seeming to turn out the lights on the contest when Cowan-Dickie burrowed over from the subsequent driven line-out.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025

According to him, he had indeed burrowed into a trove of data from a large materials-science company, as his paper said he did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

It had an earthy sound, not like the metal drum at home, of something burrowed out of a tree trunk with an animal skin stretched over the top.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Elsewhere, some tech is burrowing into the seabed.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

No one knows, but all the flailing, hammering, digging and burrowing are for naught.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Just civilian volunteers burrowing through the jagged piles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Once animals began actively burrowing through seafloor sediments hundreds of millions of years ago, these delicate features were often destroyed before they could be preserved.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

There was an unsightly creature in leather pants burrowing holes beneath the foundations with no apparent regard for the fairy commandments.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer