When two nearly blind naked mole rats encounter each other in a dark subterranean tunnel, it could be a friendly meeting or a moment of potential bloodshed between strangers. The creatures chirp to ...

Mice and rats vocalize. To us, many of the sounds they make are ultrasonic—at too high a frequency to hear. But if we slow the calls down, they sound like squeaks. And not all squeaks are the same.

"When you see a number, it looks like you have an issue," he said. "But in Creswell, those were isolated incidents. They were even isolated to certain floors." The rat pack still runs rampant in ...

With six mutations in genes associated with hearing, naked mole-rats can barely hear the constant squeaking they use to communicate with one another. This hearing loss, which is strange for such ...

Rats may carry out certain activities just for the fun of it, says new research on the animals' behavior. In a study published in the journal Science researchers found that rats were capable of not ...

When two nearly blind naked mole rats encounter each other in a dark subterranean tunnel, it could be a friendly meeting or a moment of potential bloodshed between strangers. The creatures chirp to ...