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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naked mole rats live much longer than other rodents thanks to a special anti-aging process. The mole rats can remove stagnant ...

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 ...

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.

They weigh about an ounce, spend their lives underground in sub-Saharan Africa and are unlikely to be making the shortlist for any cute animal calendars, but the naked mole-rat continues to show ...

Blind mole-rats, like their relatives the impervious naked mole-rat, live relatively long lives—about 21 years—yet never develop cancer. Although previous research found a genetic basis for the naked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naked molerat guarding underground tunnel© Neil Bromhall/Shutterstock.com The post Naked Mole-Rats Use Their Teeth Like Chopsticks ...

Rufus, the naked mole-rat sidekick from the cartoon “Kim Possible,” could plausibly still be alive today, and he might have a really big spleen. What’s new — While completing other research on naked ...

This article is part of a series on recent advances in the science and medicine of longevity. Can the humble naked mole rat help us extend our life span? Researchers at the University of Rochester ...

Deprived of oxygen, naked mole-rats can survive by metabolizing fructose just as plants do, researchers report this week in the journal Science. Understanding how the animals do this could lead to ...

Model organisms are critical to aging research. One particularly useful animal is the naked mole rat because it lives an exceptionally long-life with a maximum lifespan of 37 years. Not only that, ...