Carl Zimmer has a nice piece on the voracity of star-nosed moles in the “NYT”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/science/08mole.html?ex=1265605200&en=a9187294b8ddfa2d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland today. But am I the only one to think they look like escapees from the Cthulhu mythos? If I found one poking its snout up through my lawn, I’d be distinctly unnerved …
Update: by popular demand, I’ve moved the disturbing cthonic entity beneath the fold. Here’s an old kitten photo instead (Aoife is now 2 years older and 7 pounds tubbier than she was then).
!http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~farrell/aoife.jpg!