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This neuroscientist loves the "extremes" in the animal kingdom.
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Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata). Photo by Kenneth C. Catania.
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Star-Nosed Mole - Able to smell underwater with its tentacles and swim in icy waters the mole is a excellent forager.
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Star-Nosed Mole
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Get ready to open your eyes to whole new world
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The nose of the star-nosed mole.
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There are a lot of photography genres represented throughout the PhotoShelter community – fashion, sports, landscape, wedding, food…the list goes on. But one genre that we thought was potentially not getting the attention it deserves is unique – dare we say, other-worldly – animal photography. So we searched PhotoShelter members’ sites for images of the […]
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The star-nosed mole’s “nose” is not an olfactory organ, but a skin surface that mediates touch. Innervated by more than 100,000 sensory neurons, the star is probably the most sensitive and highly acute touch organ found on any mammal. Under a scanning electron microscope, the skin surface resolves into a cobbled landscape covered with tens of thousands of tiny epidermal domes. Each is about 60 µm in diameter, and each contains a circular disk in its center. Known as Eimer’s organs
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