Peek inside the burrow and discover a social rodent that lives in communities much like those of many insects.

A pregnant naked mole rat can shut down reproduction across her entire colony using a single chemical compound, and ...

A rat first frees a cagemate rat and then shares food with it. Is this animal just as empathetic as humans? In an American ...

Many people, including researchers, recognize that animal models of human disease don't work as well as their colleagues and others claim that they do. I recently learned of an outstanding book by ...

Model organisms are essential for biomedical research and have enabled many important scientific discoveries. The ability to sequence the genomes of these models is a powerful tool to study the ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert -- and researchers have discovered new details ...