They aren’t exactly glamorous, but naked mole rats have genes that could mean feeling younger and living longer.

Scientists are using machine learning to eavesdrop on naked mole rats, fruit bats, crows and whales — and to communicate back. Naked mole rats live in large, underground colonies and have an elaborate ...

The mole rat lives about 37 years which is about five times longer than expected for an animal of its size and type. Researchers at the Queen Mary University of London have learned more about why the ...

The naked mole rat is finger size, nearly blind, and not particularly cute, even when judged on a rodents-only curve. It also could hold the secret to near immortality: The naked mole rat lives for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once again naked mole-rats have dealt scientists an exciting blow, with new research suggesting their anomalies in mammalian reproduction could hold the key to preserving human fertility. “Naked ...

They weigh about an ounce, spend their lives underground in sub-Saharan Africa and are unlikely to be making the shortlist for any cute animal calendars, but the naked mole-rat continues to show ...

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 ...

Remarkable animals like naked mole rats, turtles, and fish have evolved astonishing biological adaptations to survive in ...

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 ...