Researchers at an Auburn University lab collected a mole-like animal that was found with a new species of henipavirus named after the Alabama town where the specimen came from, according to the ...

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.

Colourful animals, predators and those ... It’s pain resistant, pink-wrinkled, cold-blooded, cancer immune – it’s the humble naked mole rat! A rodent - so different from any other species ...