Naked Mole Rats Exhibit a Consistently Low Resting Metabolic Rate with Aging (opens in new tab)

Across mammalian species, resting metabolic rate roughly inversely correlates with species life span and body weight. Larger species are on average longer lived and have lower metabolic rates. There are, of course, a number of interesting outliers that exhibit very long lives relative to similarly sized mammalian species, such as a few bat species and the naked mole-rats that are the subject of this paper. The prevalent thinking on the matter of metabolic rate and longevity is that this relat...