Fossorial

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A fossorial animal (from Latin fossor 'digger') is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground. Examples of fossorial vertebrates are moles, badgers, naked mole-rats, meerkats, armadillos, wombats, and mole salamanders.

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Image: Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster). [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.