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Its small, flat, triangular cerebellum, for instance, indicates it was likely an adept burrower, but other features imply that it didn’t spend its entire life underground, the researchers report today in Science Advances.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

“I'm more of a much burrower and just push narrowly, straight ahead.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2015

An owl hooted, and the rustling of brushwood told me of the near proximity of some fur-coated burrower in the ground.

From Scottish Ghost Stories by O'Donnell, Elliott

It is a burrower, and in the teeth it resembles the rodent animals; hence its name, from φασκωλον, a pouch, and μὑς, a mouse.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam

Viscacha, vis-kach′a, n. a South American rodent of the Chinchilla family, inhabiting the South American Pampas, of stout form and about twenty inches in length, a gregarious burrower and nocturnal in habits—also Bizcacha.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various