You can talk to your vet to see if Maev is right for your dog. Naked mole-rats are not keeping their weirdness on the inside.

(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 ...

Naked mole-rats are well known for both their wrinkly appearance and for their unexpectedly long lives. The source of this extended lifespan has been under scrutiny for decades. While many rodents are ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Naked mole rats will never win a beauty pageant, but they win at life by being the longest-living rodents. Researchers found that the secret of these ...

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.

In eusocial superorganisms like leafcutter ant colonies, labor is divvied up according to body shape and size, but Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Shelley Berger and her team discovered ...

A naked mole rat with its head raised and nose in the air. Long live the naked mole rat. These wrinkly critters live about 37 years, thanks in part to an enzyme that helps regulate DNA repair. Credit: ...

The secret to the naked mole-rats’ extraordinarily long life may lie in subtle changes to just four amino acids, researchers report. According to a new study, evolutionary mutations in cGAS – an ...

Naked mole rats will never win a beauty pageant, but they win at life by being the longest-living rodents. Researchers found that the secret of these burrowing animals lies in a protein that does the ...