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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

I'm Steve Murski.

May 18th is the 37th anniversary of the massive explosion of Mount St. Helens,

but within days of the volcano erupting, the local ecosystem started to bounce back,

thanks to some unassuming little animals that spend lots of time underground.

The pocket govers were the ecological heroes of Mount St. Helens.

Emory University paleontologist and geologist Anthony J. Martin.

You normally don't hear those words put together, pocket gopher and hero, but they were.

These small burrowing mammals were able to survive this massive,

devastating volcanic eruption. Just as numerous animals that live underground have survived

catastrophes and predators for hundreds of millions of years, as Martin discusses in his new book,

The Evolution Underground, Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous

Subterranean World beneath our feet.

The reports I was reading about this, about how these researchers and helicopters are flying

over the devastated landscape, just a few days later, there were the burrow mounts.

Pop, pop, pop, pop.

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