The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath Our Feet

Professor Anthony Martin with the cast of a crustacean burrow from the Georgia coast.

Crayfish in Burrow (Photograph by Anthony Martin taken in Decatur Georgia)

Gopher/Tortoise Burrow

map of Pleistocene giant ground sloth burrow system (Brazil) Galileo shuttlecraft (7 m long) for scale

Early Cretaceous (130 mya) lobster burrow preserved as natural cast on bottom of limestone bed Portugal.

Lungfish Estivation- Burrows

Alligator Den

Harvester Ant Nest Cast at the Smithsonian

A bird burrow illustration