High-ranking naked mole-rats are more resilient – ScienceDaily

Naked mole-rats not only look strange, they have a strange lifestyle, too: they spend their entire lives underground. They also feel very little pain, rarely develop cancer and are exceptionally long-lived for a rodent — living up to 37 years. All this makes the hairless burrow-dwellers prime candidates for scientific study. For nearly 20 years, […]