The naked mole-rat, which is in fact neither a mole nor a rat, is one of only two “eusocial” mammals; as with social insects such as bees and ants, young are produced by only one female in a colony — ...

Despite being mammals, these remarkably cancer-resistant animals share a lot in common with cold-blooded species.

Humans aren't the only creatures with dialects that are specific to certain regions. It seems that colonies of naked mole-rats have their own dialects too, which strengthens the social connections of ...

Naked mole rats, which are neither moles nor rats, have unusually long lifespans compared to other rodents, and also seem to not develop cancer. Researchers are diligently searching for the key(s) to ...

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WASHINGTON — They’re naked, buck-toothed and nearly blind, but that isn’t stopping a colony of 17 naked mole-rats from trying to take the internet by storm at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The zoo ...

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 ...

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If you’ve started to notice signs of tunneling in your yard, there’s a good chance that you have a mole infestation. For the most part, moles are small, harmless mammals that spend their lives beneath ...

There's a good reason why ears and eyes come in pairs. Receiving stimuli from two points of input is necessary to pinpoint the location of objects. Most animals, including people, can hear and see in ...

Whether you’ve been playing since launch, or you just managed to pick up the game, you’ve probably heard some kind of chirping as you move around your island. While somewhat annoying after long stints ...