Naked mole rats live much longer than other rodents thanks to a special anti-aging process. The mole rats can remove stagnant cells that would otherwise linger and cause health problems. Scientists ...

During the coronavirus lockdown, some people ignore health guidelines and fail to keep a safe physical distance from others. A new study on naked mole-rats published in Current Biology now suggests a ...

Researchers were first intrigued by the social structure of the mole rats in the 1970s because, like bees and termites, naked mole rats have a single-breeding queen and have non-breeding worker rats ...

The African mole rat is one of the most bizarre and wonderful creatures on the planet. They live in vast underground colonies with a queen, in the manner of ants or bees, have developed biological ...

Strangers are just friends you haven’t met – unless you’re a naked mole rat. Arguably nature’s least beautiful animals, naked mole rats speak in dialects local to their own colonies and are hostile to ...

The naked mole-rat is unusual among mammals for many reasons, not least because these rodents remain fertile throughout their decades-long life span. Researchers think the reasons behind that lifelong ...

Its secrets could lead to longer life, cancer cures. May 4, 2014 — -- East Africa's naked mole rat may be one of the ugliest critters on the planet, but to scientists around the world it is ...

Rufus, the naked mole-rat sidekick from the cartoon “Kim Possible,” could plausibly still be alive today, and he might have a really big spleen. What’s new — While completing other research on naked ...

Over millions of years, naked mole-rats have cast away everything underground which uses their energy and isn’t necessary to survive. They hypothesized the chirps might serve a social function.

Nature pulls off some amazing surprises when it comes to reproduction, especially among animals that produce massive broods ...

While we humans suffer from the heat of spicy chilli on our tongue and the burn of wasabi as it shoots from our nose to brain, one species of African mole-rat doesn't seem to feel any pain at all. As ...

Discovering the rodent’s imperviousness to a stinging chemical compound may lead to advancements in pain treatment for people. By Cara Giaimo If you’ve ever taken a big bite of wasabi, you know what ...