In the dry grasslands of East Africa, a small, wrinkled rodent spends nearly its entire life underground in a way that has quietly upended assumptions about how mammals age. The naked mole-rat can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naked mole rats live much longer than other rodents thanks to a special anti-aging process. The mole rats can remove stagnant ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that naked mole-rats communicate using distinct dialects, showcasing their sophisticated ...

A naked mole-rat can lose consciousness within seconds of entering an oxygen-free environment and still survive for 18 minutes. That was the finding of a 2017 study that tested how these underground ...

Naked mole rats keep kingdoms underground. One queen bears all the children, while others maintain complex subterranean tunnels, forage for food, take care of newborns, and perform other necessary ...

This article is part of a series on recent advances in the science and medicine of longevity. Can the humble naked mole rat help us extend our life span? Researchers at the University of Rochester ...

A pregnant naked mole-rat queen, on the left, and a worker, on the right, sniff each other. Felix Petermann / Max Delbrück Center As if naked mole-rats aren’t weird enough, new research suggests that ...

Longtime listeners (and readers) already know that I love naked mole rats. More importantly, you already know that naked mole rats are freaky. They're basically impervious to pain and seemingly immune ...

It’s tough being a female in a naked mole-rat colony; they live a long life of servitude, maintaining the tunnels of their underground world and caring for the queen’s offspring. Within the colony, a ...

Blind mole-rats, like their relatives the impervious naked mole-rat, live relatively long lives—about 21 years—yet never develop cancer. Although previous research found a genetic basis for the naked ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. An unlikely critter may be a clue to finding the fountain of youth, new research suggests. Naked mole ...