How to Use star-nosed mole in a Sentence
star-nosed mole
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Bizarre and outlandish animals like the star-nosed mole can stir fear in the bravest of people, no matter how small or harmless the predator might be to us.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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The star-nosed mole is not exceptional despite its ecological constraints.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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This ancient developmental program, deeply conserved, can also be radically repurposed, as seen in the star-nosed mole's sensory tentacles.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
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The star-nosed mole’s speed is an adaptation for the act of recognition itself — for making correct categorical decisions, in the dark, at the physical limit of neural transmission.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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The star-nosed mole’s sensory architecture is the product of selection pressure operating in a specific ecological context that has remained largely stable over millions of years.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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What The Mole’s Hunting Apparatus Teaches Us As Catania summarized in a 2011 review in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, the star-nosed mole has become one of neuroscience’s most instructive model systems precisely because its specialization is so extreme.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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