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These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their remarkable ability to survive these conditions could offer a key model for rese ...

Blind mole rats live in underground burrows that can be quite hypoxic, with oxygen levels getting as low as 7.2 percent. (The air we breathe is 21 percent oxygen). A team of researchers in Israel and ...

April 20 (UPI) --When naked mole-rats run low on oxygen, they metabolize fructose just like plants, a new study showed. The brain cells of most mammals, including humans, quickly die when deprived of ...

When oxygen runs low in their underground burrows, naked mole rats have a unique method of survival. Their metabolism switches from a glucose-based system, which depends on oxygen, to one that makes ...

Deprived of oxygen, naked mole-rats can survive by metabolizing fructose just as plants do -- a finding that could lead to treatments for heart attacks and strokes. Deprived of oxygen, naked mole-rats ...

The naked mole rat must be one of the strangest mammals in existence. They live in underground colonies like those of ants and bees, with a fertile queen lording over sterile workers. They feel no ...