The image displays an informative text about naked mole rat queens, accompanied by a photograph of a naked mole rat lying on a sandy surface. The text explains that naked mole rat queens are not born to the throne; instead, rival females fight for the right to rule. Nature crowns the winner with an extreme makeover, where the new sovereign's body expands with additional vertebrae, making her larger than any of her subjects and brawny enough to birth multiple heirs. The extra bones in her back give her queenly size and help her grow to her royal duty of having hundreds of babies. The photograph depicts a wrinkled, pinkish-brown naked mole rat lying on a sandy or light-colored surface.

Queen Naked Mole Rat Grows Extra Vertebrae to Rule

#zooatlanta #naturestudy awesome fact of the day. Queen #nakedmolerat (which seems to be a favorite of my kids) not only beats out the other ladies to be queen, but upon doing so, her body knows and grows extra vertebrae to allow her to be bigger? She’s not only bigger... she grows more bones! Sounds like nature knows that Mom life is a hard one ;)