A naked mole-rat queen – the sole breeder in a colony. (Felix Petermann, Max Delbrück Center) Naked mole-rats are wonderfully ...

It’s tough being a female in a naked mole-rat colony; they live a long life of servitude, maintaining the tunnels of their ...

As if naked mole-rats aren’t weird enough, new research suggests that a chemical released by their queens prevents all other ...

Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives almost entirely underground, are largely insensitive to some kinds of pain, ...

Peek inside the burrow and discover a social rodent that lives in communities much like those of many insects.

A pregnant naked mole rat can shut down reproduction across her entire colony using a single chemical compound, and ...

An international team led by Dr. Gary Lewin, group leader of the Molecular Physiology of Somatosensory Perception lab at the ...

Naked mole-rat queens produce a chemical that stops other females from reproducing. Credit: Neil Bromhall/Getty. Naked ...

Not particularly pretty, but fascinating: naked mole-rats are considered medically interesting animals. Researchers have now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...