Naked mole-rats are blind and hairless and live their entire lives underground. They have two large sets of front teeth, and can move their lower set of teeth independently of each other. Each ...

Few animals look less like a medical marvel than the naked mole rat. Wrinkled, nearly hairless and blind for practical purposes, it spends its life in dark underground tunnels beneath the arid soils ...

This unusual, subterranean mammal with extreme longevity shows genetic adaptations to low oxygen environments which could offer opportunities for advancing other areas of physiological and medical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The naked mole-rat lives far longer than any rodent should.

Naked mole-rats possess an extraordinary ability to endure significant lengths of time without oxygen, a fascinating ...

There are many different kinds of mole rats. The best known is probably the naked mole rat, whose hairless, tubular, wrinkled body makes it appear a bit like a tiny walrus—or perhaps a bratwurst with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naked molerat (Heterocephalus glaber) eating tuber in underground tunnel© Neil Bromhall/Shutterstock.com The post New Study: Naked ...

(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 ...

Scientists at the University of Rochester pulled off a remarkable experiment: they transferred a longevity-related gene from the famously long-lived naked mole rat into mice, and the mice ended up ...

An international team led by Dr. Gary Lewin, group leader of the Molecular Physiology of Somatosensory Perception lab at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, has discovered that the queens of naked mole ...

In a colony of bees, the queen bee is the reproductive heart of the colony. Surprisingly, naked mole rats follow a similar hierarchy when it comes to reproduction within colonies, and, like the queen ...