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The 21 pages that link to Fossoriality, each with the reason it gives.

• CaecilianRelated: Many caecilians move through soil using a compact skull and powerful body muscles.

• AardvarkRelated: Aardvarks excavate insect nests and dig burrows for shelter.

• EulipotyphlaRelated: It explains the specialized limbs and bodies of many true moles.

• PeramelemorphiaRelated: Bilbies and some bandicoots dig for food, shelter, or refuge.

• DibamidaeRelated: Dibamids spend much of their lives in soil, where their body shape aids movement.

• Golden moleRelated: Golden moles’ body form and senses are shaped by a fossorial life.

• BlesmolRelated: Blesmols are strongly fossorial, spending their lives in self-dug tunnel systems.

• SpalaxRelated: Fossoriality explains the body plan and ecology shared by Spalax species.

• TaeniodontaRelated: Taeniodont limb proportions and claws have been interpreted as digging adaptations.

• UromastyxRelated: Burrows shelter Uromastyx from extreme temperatures and predators.

• XenopeltisRelated: Xenopeltis spends much of its time beneath the ground or in loose soil.