These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

Subterranean rodents occupy an exceptional ecological niche characterised by elaborate burrow systems and unique physiological adaptations. Their underground habitat, with its stable but challenging ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They are homely, buck-toothed, pink, nearly hairless and just plain weird, but one of the many odd traits of rodents called naked mole-rats that live in subterranean bliss in ...

They are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they have just revealed a genetic secret to long life. A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the ...