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 aren’t exactly glamorous, but naked mole rats have genes that could mean feeling younger and living longer.

While a typical mouse lives about four years, a naked mole-rat can live to nearly forty. That’s ten times longer than expected for an animal its size ...

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Some of the world’s wildest animals come with names so bizarre, they sound completely made up, but every one of them is real.

(FOX40.COM) — After months of planning, the Sacramento Zoo announced it’s bringing a naked mole-rat colony for the first time in the zoo’s history. According to the Sacramento Zoo, the colony offers ...

A new adaptation of the Mo Willems book “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed” uses animation and rock songs to tell a story about self-expression and acceptance. By Laurel Graeber Mo Willems’s picture books ...

Researchers have shed light on an unusual resistance to cancer displayed by the naked mole rat, a burrowing, long-lived desert-dwelling rodent. In these animals, a cell growth switch absent in more ...

Scientists found a cat with a dead mole rat and rediscovered a rodent considered extinct and not seen in the country for 120 years. Google Street View May 2023 ...