To be a pest is to be underestimated. Sure, pests are annoying, but being a pest also requires a surprising amount of coordination and communication. That’s what researchers recently discovered about ...

Rats seem to emit ultrasonic squeaks of happiness just because they are in the company of another rat. Using newly developed miniature microphones that were placed on rats’ noses, scientists have been ...

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 ...

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 ...