These animals, which have memorably been described as “ wrinkled fingers with teeth,” originate in East Africa. They’re called naked mole rats, though I should tell you they’re neither ...

io9 African Mole-rats have teeth like an escalator By Tim Barribeau Published October 14, 2011 | Comments (0) 𝕏 ...

Heather Purdeu shows ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander a colony of naked mole-rats from Scovill Zoo Get ready to burrow into the underground world of Scovill Zoo’s incredible naked mole-rat colony! In ...

Handy for an animal that spends most of its life in deep, oxygen-deprived burrows. To do this, the naked mole rats switch to powering their cells by fructose rather than glucose – a process that ...

A face only a mother could love is a cliché phrase that encompasses each animal represented on this list. These animals have been widely known as the ugliest, but why? Counting down the top five most ...

The silvery mole rat still has many mysteries to sink our teeth into. Reference: Gomes Rodrigues, Marangoni, Sumbera, Tafforeau, Wendelen & Viriot. 2011.

The burrowing mole was known to elude many of the tools conservationists rely on to identify and track down animals weren't enough to pin down the iridescent critters.

Researchers have discovered a new genus and species of prehistoric mole in Spain. Vulcanoscaptor ninoti lived during the ...