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Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.

Beneath the sand: Indigenous rangers in Australia found a northern marsupial mole, the “hardest of all the animals to find.”

Beneath the sand: Australian rangers found a northern marsupial mole, the “hardest of all the animals to find.”

If you saw a northern marsupial mole, you might be surprised.

The northern marsupial mole, or kakarratul, lives in one of the most remote parts of the nation and is so elusive that authorities don't even know how many there are.