We expel carbon dioxide as waste. Naked mole rats bathe their brains in it to prevent seizures. The unique animals thrive underground but cannot handle the lack of carbon dioxide above.

As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young. Worker animals dig the burrows that the whole clan inhabits, using their prominent teeth and snouts.

The word "mole" suggests a small, furry burrowing animal to many. But in this TED-Ed lesson, we look at the concept of the mole in chemistry.

An curved arrow pointing right. The blind De Winton's golden mole, thought to be lost for nearly a century, was found in South Africa using eDNA, a technique that examines DNA left in the environment.

Spring is the best time to eradicate moles, but many common home remedies don't work and may be hazardous, a Purdue University expert says. Judy Loven, Indiana state director of the U.S. Department of ...

Thankfully, moles are solitary animals, meaning seeing multiple molehills doesn't mean you've got an infestation on your hands - more likely there's just one or two wreaking havoc. Gardening ...

Naked mole-rats evolved in eastern Africa ... impossible to film underground without causing major disturbance to the animals and their homes. Luckily for us there were several colonies at ...

The Florida Keys mole skink is one of the rarest and most mysterious of Florida natives. This small, five-inch-long lizard has shiny, armor-like scales, a pinkish-red tail and a brown body. It's a ...

[Forrest] and a team of three other students made a whack-a-mole arcade game that lets you vent your rage on a helpless furry animal by whacking it with a large hammer. He built most of it from ...

It may be a simple fable about a young child and his adventures with some animal friends, but the original book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse proved hugely popular and spent months at ...