Heterocephalus glaber or simply naked mole rats are not the best challengers to win a beauty contest, most people even claim them ugly and unpleasant but scientist are votaries of these unusual rodents. They consider mole rats to be completely bizarre and simply … charming. 
Appearance
Naked mole rats are small rodents, possessing cylindrical bodies and rather short limbs. They are perfect at burrowing. Their eyes are very tiny, these creatures have very poor eyesight. The first teeth are large and protrude out of their mouths. The skin is almost hairless, very pink and so saggy.
Profession
Naked mole rats are skillful diggers. They live in colonies underground and burrow tunnels to find roots. Very often they work in a team, thus, looking like excavators. BTW, in every colony everything is organized very strictly.
Cool facts
- one naked mole rat (captured in the wild when it was approximately 1 year old) lived for more than 27 years! Not very long? A mouse in a lab lives 10 times as shorter;
- scientists have never seen a naked mole-rat with cancer (most mice have can it);
- almost no age-related declines in any system.
Oh men , I read about rats everywhere lately! Would to be because it’s the year of the rat? Anyway, I think this naked one, looks pretty scary!
This is definitely bizarre! I have never seen one or even heard of this animal before. Thanks for sharing it!
–JB
2 Holy Cuteness: I am so sorry, but I failed to notice that I wrote 2 posts about rodents. Hey, it’s their year, let them become popular!
2 JB: You are welcome. They look not very attractive, but they do exist and we have to know something about them.
Thanks for your comments!
they are very bizarre animals. i was wondering i u had any more info on them because i am thinking about doing an isc on them in school.
Hi, Em! I am so glad you would like to do an isc about these unusual animals. Please, view the following links, hope they will help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole_rat
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/publications/zoogoer/2002/3/nakedmolerats.cfm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/614.shtml
http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/learning/animals/mammals/mole-rat
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cberger/syllabusfolder/animaldiversity/Heterocephalus_glaber.html
Good luck, Angel!