"Lost species" De Winton's golden mole found after 86 years

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[Surprise_Puma]

So the Twinkie actually IS a natural product!

[MrShiv]

@boingboing

Hottentot Golden Mole

really?

[Otherbrother]

As far as I know they haven’t even edited out that “We’re being attacked by H------s!” line from Mary Poppins yet, so I’m not surprised that they haven’t renamed the mole species. Although there’s certainly precedent for changing offensive species names, like they did with the Spongy Moth.

[euansmith]

“MOLE SIGN!!!”