De Winton's golden mole, last sighted in 1937, has been found alive swimming through sand dunes in South Africa after an extensive search for the elusive species. When you purchase through links on ...

Humans aren't the only creatures with dialects that are specific to certain regions. It seems that colonies of naked mole-rats have their own dialects too, which strengthens the social connections of ...

Naked mole rats, which are neither moles nor rats, have unusually long lifespans compared to other rodents, and also seem to not develop cancer. Researchers are diligently searching for the key(s) to ...

WASHINGTON — They’re naked, buck-toothed and nearly blind, but that isn’t stopping a colony of 17 naked mole-rats from trying to take the internet by storm at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The zoo ...

Source: John Brighenti, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Naked mole-rats are weird. Native to East Africa, they live underground in highly ordered and hierarchical colonies with a ...

Animals are awesome. But which is the ultimate champion? Over the next seven weeks, we’ll be pitting some of nature’s most remarkable creatures against one another in a series of virtual battles. Two ...

Scientists are using machine learning to eavesdrop on naked mole rats, fruit bats, crows and whales — and to communicate back. Naked mole rats live in large, underground colonies and have an elaborate ...

You’re just going about your business on your very own deserted island and suddenly you hear a buzzing sound. There’s nothing in sight so that means it could only be coming from below your feet.

Source: John Brighenti, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Naked mole-rats are weird. Native to East Africa, they live underground in highly ordered and hierarchical colonies with a ...