These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ...

Naked mole rats have been a source of fascination for decades. These unusual-looking mammals are nearly hairless, with ...

Naked mole-rats are blind and hairless and live their entire lives underground. They have two large sets of front teeth, and can move their lower set of teeth independently of each other. Each ...

When their queen dies, naked mole rat females usually wage bloody battles of succession. But peace may be possible, a new ...

Naked mole-rats also stick out for other reasons. They have a fairly long life-span, with some living up to 30 years, can ...

CNN — Strangers are just friends you haven't met -- unless you're a naked mole rat. Arguably nature's least beautiful animals, naked mole rats speak in dialects local to their own colonies and are ...

Naked mole rats may avoid violent power struggles, as new findings show a calm and cooperative path to replacing their queen.

The breath you just took contains about 21 percent oxygen. But if you were in a chamber with no influx of fresh air, the oxygen level would slowly diminish. If it got to about 15 percent, you’d feel a ...

ARRIVALS WITH NO VISIBLE EARS AND EYES. SO ITTY BITTY. ZOOLOGISTS ACTUALLY SAY YOU COULD CALL THEM CLOSE TO BLIND. THIS SMALL CELEBRATION IN PLACE FOR THE ARRIVAL OF SACRAMENTO ZOO’S BRAND NEW, NEARLY ...

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.

Naked mole rats keep kingdoms underground. One queen bears all the children, while others maintain complex subterranean ...

Blind and mostly hairless, with front teeth that put beavers to shame, the naked mole-rat is one of the most unusual-looking rodents you could ever see. However, you probably won’t see one, since they ...