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What is an animal adapted to digging and living mostly underground called?

Fossorial.

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  1. Fossorial ✔
  2. Aquatic
  3. Arboreal

Why: Fossorial mammals like badgers and naked mole-rats are adapted to digging.

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Fossorial animals really dig their work.
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Answer: Fossorial. Fossorial mammals like badgers and naked mole-rats are adapted to digging.

  1. Mammal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal
    A fossorial (from Latin fossor, meaning "digger") is an animal adapted to digging
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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