To many people, particularly gardeners, moles are little more than pests. Their conical mounds can easily become a blight on your backyard, leading many people to seek solutions to get rid of them. In ...

The naked mole rat may not be much to look at, but it has much to say. The wrinkled, whiskered rodents, which live, like many ants do, in large, underground colonies, have an elaborate vocal ...

Naked mole-rats live in crowded, underground colonies that are low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide, which can produce tissue acidosis in other animals. Acid insensitivity could help them live ...

Some long-living animals seem to defy the rules of aging, so scientists are studying them.; Two animals of interest to researchers are the naked mole rat, which lives decades longer than its ...

Mole animals have very short legs. Their forelegs are great for digging. These limbs are naturally rotated at the elbows — so their palms point toward their rears — and they end in strong ...

In naked-mole-rat societies, the royals do not wield scepters or don crowns. But that’s not to say that their majesty is subtle. The toothy, pruney rodents live in close-knit underground ...

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.