An curved arrow pointing right. The blind De Winton's golden mole, thought to be lost for nearly a century, was found in South Africa using eDNA, a technique that examines DNA left in the environment.

Naked mole-rats evolved in eastern Africa, and Damarland mole-rats further south – almost on opposite sides of the continent. They live in social groups with one breeding female, the queen ...

our team worked with the Australian Biological Tissue Collection at the South Australian Museum to acquire two tiny tissue samples frozen more than a decade ago from a southern marsupial mole.