burrow

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This subterranean menagerie is capitalizing on an old burrow, gouged into the earth by a massive lizard.

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Tubenoses can locate their nest burrows by scent and are even able to detect a whiff of plankton while on the wing.

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If a burrow is already occupied and is close to the ideal size, or a bit smaller, the mantis shrimp will fight longer and harder for that burrow—and be more likely to win the contest.

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“The burrow is a massively valuable resource because it is so costly — in terms of energy — to excavate and build,” says Faulkes, of Queen Mary University of London.

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Trace fossils also include preserved tracks, burrows and feces.

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Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the spinifex and shouted, "Go away!"

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Henry laid his brother down and stretched his aching arms, while Jess began to burrow into the haystack.

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Rats burrow along a drain pipe from the sewer into the house and admit sewer gas.

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She dropped on her knees and examined the toads carefully, while they tried to burrow into the soil backward, to escape the sun.

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They all looked downward and found a sky-blue rabbit had stuck his head out of a burrow in the ground.