The Fastest Eater in the World Lives Underground!

[00:00:00]What you're looking at is not from a science-fiction movie. This is a real animal. And that face, it's one of the most powerful biological sensors on the planet.

[00:00:09]Deep in the murky wetlands of eastern North America, hidden beneath roots and mud, lives the star-nosed mole. That star-shaped nose has 22 fleshy tentacles packed with over 25,000 [music] touch receptors. And here's where it gets truly wild. This mole can actually smell underwater. It blows a tiny bubble from its nose. Watch closely because this happens in under a quarter of a second. The tentacles touch the worm and it's gone. The star-nosed mole holds the world record for the fastest eater on Earth. Blink and you miss it. It almost looks like a vacuum cleaner. It hunts on land, it hunts underground, and it hunts in water, too. The star-nose leads every dive, scanning ahead like sonar on a submarine.

[00:00:55]A quarter-second kill.

[00:00:56]The star-nosed mole isn't just surviving out here. It's dominating.