Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't ...

We expel carbon dioxide as waste. Naked mole rats bathe their brains in it to prevent seizures. The unique animals thrive ...

The Tulsa Zoo has a colony of nearly 30 naked mole rats. The mammals are native to Africa and live almost entirely underground. The zoo has created a similar environment in the WildLife Trek Life ...

Image by Amy Downes. Characteristic red-sand mounds excavated by the mole-rats. The African mole-rats are an intriguing group of Mammals, and we started talking to research groups and scientists ...

Matter Bio, co-founded by George Church, partners with scientists to study longevity genes in centenarians and long-lived ...

Female naked mole rats are able to produce new eggs throughout their lifetime, the study found, unlike other mammals which have a finite number of eggs. That discovery could lead to dramatic ...

A naked mole rat's immune system prevents damaged cells from accumulating, and elephants have tumor suppressor gene p53, which helps repair DNA damage. read more Share ...

The mole rat was one of the first entries into photographer Joel Sartore's Photo Ark, which now has over 6,500 species.

A 22.5 acre (nine hectare) savannah, designed to replicate the grasslands of Africa, is to open at Chester Zoo. One of the UK ...