Image by Amy Downes. Characteristic red-sand mounds excavated by the mole-rats. The African mole-rats are an intriguing group of Mammals, and we started talking to research groups and scientists ...
Naked mole rats — unpretty rodents that can live for more than 30 years — seem to have quelled the genetic ghosts that haunt other mammalian genomes. In mammals, roughly half the genome ...
There are many different kinds of mole rats. The best known is probably the naked mole rat, whose hairless, tubular, wrinkled body makes it appear a bit like a tiny walrus—or perhaps a bratwurst ...
Dr Chris Faulkes’ research into evolution and biodiversity led to the discovery of two new mole-rat species in Tanzania. His team’s assessment for one of the species to be given ‘Endangered’ status, ...
Naked mole rats are the longest-living rodents on the planet. Most mice, rats, and hamsters don't live beyond five years old. Despite their wrinkly exterior, mole rats are young at heart ...
Back in the early 1860s, just a few years after he first published On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin came up with a hypothesis about Angraecum sesquipedale, otherwise known as the Star-of ...
It may look like a whiskered cocktail sausage, but the naked mole rat’s incredible biology may one day improve countless lives. Worker naked mole-rats take care of their colony’s young even ...