How to Use naked mole rat in a Sentence

naked mole rat

noun
  • But naked mole rats seem to have avoided the pitfalls of both.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
  • One of the black squares is today replaced by an image of a naked mole rat.
    — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The naked mole rat, which lives in burrows in the Middle East.
    — Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
  • These include members of the naked mole rat colony as well as the zoo’s lion pride and elephant herd.
    — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
  • The heroine of the piece is a naked mole rat named Sweety, a conspicuous weirdo.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
  • To figure out how to stop the cellular aging process in its tracks, humans need to be a bit more like a naked mole rat.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2023
  • On this day, the Underzone closed as keepers introduced a new colony of naked mole rats.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • When their queen dies, naked mole rat females usually wage bloody battles of succession.
    — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There are cancer biologists who have whole colonies of naked mole rats and have been studying them for 40 years.
    — Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
  • When this happens, naked mole rats lose consciousness, slowing their heartrate and stopping their breathing.
    — Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Odd appearance aside, the naked mole rat is a marvel of strange abilities and adaptations.
    — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The Rochester researchers had previously been focusing on whales and naked mole rats.
    — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2025
  • Encounters with red pandas are sold out at the Houston Zoo, but are available with the zoo’s naked mole rat, which has large buck teeth.
    — Clare Ansberry, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Zak’s initial subject was the naked mole rat, a hairless rodent with front teeth that look like fingernails and an unusually long life span.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Researchers estimate that only one of every 15 of a naked mole rat's sperm can actually swim.
    — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The naked mole rat’s superpower is its ability to survive without oxygen, a trait unheard of in mammals.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But the cell's ability to make a difference in the animal's longevity was still too tiny to explain why naked mole rats live so much longer than other rodents.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The effort expands on a mission that Joel began in 2006 with the photo of a naked mole rat in a zoo a mile away from his home.
    — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Normally, anoxia causes a buildup of fructose that damages tissue, but the naked mole rat is able to convert that buildup into useable fuel.
    — Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Together, these traits make the naked mole rat a biological anomaly, a mammal that thrives where oxygen is scarce, cancer is rare, and age seems to slow down.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Last year, a naked mole rat made headlines for turning 39, five times the typical lifespan for similarly sized rodents.
    — Wired, 19 July 2022
  • And species like naked mole rats and bowhead whales live for astonishingly long periods of time, decades and centuries, respectively.
    — Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • There are countless examples of animals that can live hundreds of years (clams and whales) and some that show little sign of a greater risk of death in older ages (hydra and naked mole rats).
    — William Mair, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The invertebrate and subterranean exhibit building includes the beehive, flying insects and a naked mole rat tunnel.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Last year, when their baby boy was just a newborn, the family of three went as Kim Possible characters and dressed their child as Rufus, the naked mole rat.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • By studying low-oxygen conditions in creatures such as naked mole rats and birds, scientists can gain insight into how tissues can tolerate low-oxygen conditions.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026
  • And the ice borer itself was just a fantastic twist on a hardly more believable animal, the Namibian naked mole rat, a nearly blind mammal that has a social structure like an ant’s.
    — Paul Hoffman, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2011
  • The exhibit includes more than 20 different species, including the panther chameleon, naked mole rat, walking batfish, giant Pacific octopus and more.
    — Brittany Nader, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
  • Rochelle Buffenstein, a comparative biologist at Calico Life Sciences, has been studying naked mole rats for the past 30 years.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Justin and Hailey channeled Ron and Kim Possible from the iconic Disney Channel show Kim Possible, while Jack Blues went as Ron's pet naked mole rat Rufus.
    — Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025

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