As darkness fell across a windmill farm in western India, a spiky creature emerged from some nearby rocks to hunt. Its “large” brown eyes scanned the plateau, but it wasn’t the only one looking around ...

Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune. Rather, it’s an enigmatic and tiny mammal ...