As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young. Worker animals dig the burrows that the whole clan inhabits, using their prominent teeth and snouts.

While mole mounds and tunnels can ruin the appearance of your lawn, having moles in your yard comes with some benefits. Their ...

For highly social animals, being alone can be stressful – often leading to poor health and anxiety – but solitary animals do just fine. In fact, Middle East blind mole rats become stressed and anxious ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The blind De Winton's golden mole, thought to be lost for nearly a century, was found in South Africa using eDNA, a technique that examines DNA left in the environment.

The mole rat was one of the first entries into photographer Joel Sartore's Photo Ark, which now has over 6,500 species.

Naked mole-rats evolved in eastern Africa ... impossible to film underground without causing major disturbance to the animals and their homes. Luckily for us there were several colonies at ...

Citing “extinction-level threats from habitat-destroying development and sea-level rise,” the Center for Biological Diversity ...