Correction Aug. 21, 2019. In this story, we incorrectly say that naked mole rats don't feel pain from stinging ants. It's actually the highveld mole rat, a furry relative to the naked mole rat ...

The naked mole rat might look like a creepy, little, subterranean rodent, but according to a new study, it could hold the secret to living longer. The species lives far longer than scientists would ...

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Pretty doesn’t last. But the naked mole rat abides. The nearly blind subterranean rodent with wrinkly, pink skin and sparse hair looks disturbingly like a big toe with tusks. But it can live for ...

Naked mole-rats are weird. Native to East Africa, they live underground in highly ordered and hierarchical colonies with a single breeding queen, more like ants or termites than mammals.

The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a super-social burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa. These sausage-shaped critters are impervious to chemical pain from acid and capsaicin.

Unlike literally every other mammal, naked mole rats don't become more likely to die as they get up there in years. In humans, for example, with all else being equal besides age, a person's risk ...

The naked mole rat gets so much press, you’d think it was the only mole rat in town. Sure those hairless weirdos can survive at oxygen levels below that of Mount Everest’s peak and don’t ...

Naked mole-rats can survive for up to five hours in low oxygen conditions that would kill a human in minutes. Roland Gockel/MDC "There was nothing different in the use of the usual energy source ...

Specifically, the mole-rats were exposed to diluted hydrochloric acid (an analogue for ant venom), capsaicin (an ingredient often found in mole-rat foods), and allyl isothiocyanate AITC (an ...