The strange-looking creatures are one of two known mammals that use a social structure like that of bees and ants. A ruling ...

Naked mole-rats ignore acid that would send any other rodent into distress, and they keep their brains and organs running for ...

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

A naked mole-rat queen – the sole breeder in a colony. (Felix Petermann, Max Delbrück Center) Naked mole-rats are wonderfully strange. First off, they're awesomely cute or terrifyingly ugly, depending ...

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

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

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