Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.

S cientists have found that the naked mole-rat—an underground rodent that lives up to 40 years—has lost a number of CD1 ...

The 20-pound nutria, native to South America, has somehow managed to establish a population in the Suisun Marsh.

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 ...

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 ...

University of Pretoria (UP) scientists have contributed to discovering how the naked mole rat is able to withstand heart attacks and fend off bowel cancer, two of the most fatal human ailments in ...

A resident had reported a rat sighting. “I got PTSD immediately,” Lauren Divine, the director of the island’s Ecosystem Conservation Office, told The Washington Post. Rats are a nuisance in ...

Learning to drive small cars helps rats feel less stressed, scientists found. Researchers at the University of Richmond in the US taught a group of 17 rats how to drive little plastic cars ...

On a farm by the banks of the Swale, one little Border Terrier called Jinty had been doing her job very well indeed. So well, ...

Mole and Rat are returning from a winter walk when Mole suddenly catches the scent of his old home on the air and he is overcome with a desire to see it again. The Rat is initially reluctant to ...

Rodents have made their way onto two recent flights. Here's what to do—and not do. Have you ever seen a rat, or any type of rodent, on an airplane? This was my go-to conversation opener at each ...