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 ...

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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 ...

The breath you just took contains about 21 percent oxygen. But if you were in a chamber with no influx of fresh air, the ...

Naked mole-rats are full of surprises. The latest is that higher-ranked mole-rats most likely have an immunological advantage over animals with lower social status. Naked mole-rats not only look ...

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 ...

Most mammals, including humans, have a constantly dwindling supply of eggs, becoming less fertile with age. But naked mole rats can reproduce for their entire lives—and researchers may have uncovered ...

Naked mole rats live much longer than other rodents thanks to a special anti-aging process. The mole rats can remove stagnant cells that would otherwise linger and cause health problems. Scientists ...

Once again naked mole-rats have dealt scientists an exciting blow, with new research suggesting their anomalies in mammalian reproduction could hold the key to preserving human fertility. “Naked ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified a protein which repairs defective DNA strands by using undamaged ones as templates. The same ...

Strangers are just friends you haven’t met – unless you’re a naked mole rat. Arguably nature’s least beautiful animals, naked mole rats speak in dialects local to their own colonies and are hostile to ...