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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There may be no stranger—or more impressive—critter than the naked mole-rat. They may look unassuming, but they can defy aging, have an astonishingly high pain tolerance, and are resistant to cancer.

Model organisms are critical to aging research. One particularly useful animal is the naked mole rat because it lives an exceptionally long-life with a maximum lifespan of 37 years. Not only that, ...

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.

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 ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. "Naked mole-rats are the weirdest ...

They are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they have just revealed a genetic secret to long life. A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the ...