Weird: Naked Mole Rats Don't Die of Old Age

[PHDNM]

Weird: Naked Mole Rats Don't Die of Old Age

Just when it seemed the naked mole rat couldn't get any weirder, it turns out the buck-toothed, bare-skinned rodents don't even age.

Unlike literally every other mammal, naked mole rats don't become more likely to die as they get up there in years. In humans, for example, with all else being equal besides age, a person's risk of dying doubles every 8 years after age 40. For naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber), there is no increase in the risk of death even when the rats are 25 times older than the onset of sexual maturity.

https://www.livescience.com/61568-na...-no-aging.html

[Larali]

Has anyone tried to keep one as a pet and it lived indefinitely?

How old is the oldest naked mole rat in captivity?

Does cancer and heart disease count as "old age"? (I think it does)

[Megadorian]

Wtf is that!!

[KMack]

They die also.

[Peterski]

So they don't age?

[B01AB20]

Ugly as fuck, lives underground, no ages... this critter is the pet the devil.