A six-year study reveals that the rodent, which does not develop cancer or feel pain, also has a more sophisticated system of ...

Naked mole rat queens rule with an iron forepaw: these wrinkly, bucktoothed monarchs forbid any other female from reproducing ...

Naked mole-rats also stick out for other reasons. They have a fairly long life-span, with some living up to 30 years, can ...

ARRIVALS WITH NO VISIBLE EARS AND EYES. SO ITTY BITTY. ZOOLOGISTS ACTUALLY SAY YOU COULD CALL THEM CLOSE TO BLIND. THIS SMALL CELEBRATION IN PLACE FOR THE ARRIVAL OF SACRAMENTO ZOO’S BRAND NEW, NEARLY ...

Homely at birth, a small rodent called the naked mole-rat doesn’t grow any cuter with age. It has wrinkled skin, buck teeth, and a bald body. But scientists have now discovered that the animal has at ...

The breath you just took contains about 21 percent oxygen. But if you were in a chamber with no influx of fresh air, the oxygen level would slowly diminish. If it got to about 15 percent, you’d feel a ...

Source: John Brighenti, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Naked mole-rats are weird. Native to East Africa, they live underground in highly ordered and hierarchical colonies with a ...

Most mammals, including humans, have a constantly dwindling supply of eggs, becoming less fertile with age. But naked mole rats can reproduce for their entire lives—and researchers may have uncovered ...

Unable to feel most types of pain and resistant to most forms of cancer, you’d think naked mole rats were already the superheroes of the animal world. But as if that wasn’t enough, they have another ...

Naked mole rats are the superheroes of the animal kingdom. They live nine times longer than other rodents and they’re essentially immune to cancer. And now scientists think their extreme longevity can ...

(FOX40.COM) — After months of planning, the Sacramento Zoo announced it’s bringing a naked mole-rat colony for the first time in the zoo’s history. According to the Sacramento Zoo, the colony offers ...

Back in the early 1860s, just a few years after he first published On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin came up with a hypothesis about Angraecum sesquipedale, otherwise known as the ...