When you think of a eusocial colony, insects probably come to mind, such as bees, termites, or ants. However, two species of mammals live in highly organized social colonies with one queen and many ...

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 ...

A naked mole rat can outlive a typical lab mouse by a factor of ten, surviving more than four decades while almost never ...

Naked mole rats keep kingdoms underground. One queen bears all the children, while others maintain complex subterranean tunnels, forage for food, take care of newborns, and perform other necessary ...

These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ceded the throne to her daughter, Arwen, without violence.

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their remarkable ability to survive these conditions could offer a key model for ...

The naked mole rat is finger size, nearly blind, and not particularly cute, even when judged on a rodents-only curve. It also could hold the secret to near immortality: The naked mole rat lives for ...

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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 ...

Janelle Ayres (left) and Shanes Abeywardena (right) discover that naked mole rats are capable of peaceful queen succession, demonstrating unappreciated flexibility in their social order. LA JOLLA ...