Uploaded July 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Scanning the desert landscape of Mexico’s Baja California Sur, few people would imagine what crawls beneath the surface. But sure enough, this is the home of the Mexican mole lizard (Bipes biporus), one of the strangest creatures you’ll ever hope to see—and one of the region’s most ecologically important.

Video by Kaitlyn Kraybill-Voth: bit.ly/2uZ9gff

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