With its loose, bunchy skin and sun-starved complexion, the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) recalls an uncooked bratwurst dried on permanent press—and it might be one of the last creatures ...

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Naked mole-rats in their new home at Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Every queen deserves a castle, and the ruler of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s naked mole-rat colony is no different. After 27 years ...

Mexican mole (pronounced MO-lay) can seem intentionally bewildering, but the word actually has a very simple definition. Mole means sauce in the historic Nahuatl language spoken by the Aztecs, which ...

Moles form on your skin when clusters of melanocytes, or pigmented skin cells, grow in small, concentrated areas. They usually appear as colored bumps or spots that vary in shape and size and are ...

A mole is a colored spot on your skin caused by a high concentration of pigment-producing cells called melanocytes. The medical term for a pigmented mole is a melanocytic nevus, or simply nevus.