‘“When you play the game of thrones you win or you die” – that’s the famous quote and it really does apply to naked mole rats. Because they’re competing for the throne and they’ll kill anyone or die in the process. It’s super brutal,’ Faulkes said. These professional burrowers have evolved a ferocious bite. A quarter of their entire body musculature is devoted to powering their jaws to crunch through baked earth – and then there’s those javelin teeth. When females turn these industrial excavation tools into weapons things get ugly
