proof that moles are the best small mammalians out there.
need I say more
It's true, but it's also important to clarify that "mole" isn't an animal group, but an animal lifestyle. That photo is if a golden mole, which is completely unrelated to the animal most people just know as a "mole:"
Neurotrichus gibbssi is really a species of shrew:
And there's the marsupial mole, which is as the name implies more related to wombats and koalas than to either of those moles:
This is just what living in dirt does to mammals, like how similar needs shaped dolphins, sharks, and the extinct icthyosaurs!
OH NO!! WHOA! I FORGOT! OH NO I FORGOT!! WHOA!! WHOA NO!! I FORGOT!!!! WHOAAA!! WHOA NOOOOO!! I FORGOT!! WHOA I FORGOT OH NO!!!!! !
mole crab
ahem
Not only the famous cricket, it also happened to a beetle and a grasshopper, all on different continents :)