Naked mole rats almost never get cancer and routinely live more than thirty years — roughly ten times longer than any other rodent their size — and researchers in October 2025 finally identified one o

If you handed a biologist a small, hairless, buck-toothed rodent the size of a sausage and told them it would outlive their golden retriever, their last car, and possibly their mortgage, they would assume you were lying. Every other rodent of the naked mole-rat’s approximate body size — house mice, hamsters, gerbils, rats, voles — […] If you handed a biologist a small, hairless, buck-toothed rodent the size of a sausage and told them it would outlive their golden retriever, their last car, and possibly their mortgage, they would assume you were lying. Every other rodent of the nak... [5443 chars]