Naked mole-rats also stick out for other reasons. They have a fairly long life-span, with some living up to 30 years, can ...

When their queen dies, naked mole rat females usually wage bloody battles of succession. But peace may be possible, a new ...

Naked mole rats keep kingdoms underground. One queen bears all the children, while others maintain complex subterranean ...

A six-year study reveals that the rodent, which does not develop cancer or feel pain, also has a more sophisticated system of ...

Researchers say rats and mice might be enhancing their strong sense of smell by using sounds unable to be detected by the human ear. Bruce - stock.adobe.com Forget scratch and sniff. For rodents, it’s ...

If you think laughter and comedy are reserved strictly for humans, you’d be wrong. A study in the late 1990s showed that creatures like rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations while playing with or ...

Pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease. As laboratory animals they are therefore incapable of shedding much light on human nutrition. Rats, on the other hand, have the same eating habits as ...