Why it's awesome: The southern grasshopper mouse is a carnivore that's largely immune to scorpion venom, and howls at the moon before it kills like a tiny wolf. This mouse species is an extremely ...

Rodents are usually stereotyped as furtive, gnawing, crop and foodstuff spoiling, small mammals with few redeeming qualities, and I would wager, if asked to describe a mouse, many people’s model would ...

The southern grasshopper mouse is largely immune to the venom of the Arizona bark scorpion and will resort to cannibalism when times are tough. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

In a smackdown between a venomous bark scorpion and a mouse, which would win? A house mouse would be no match for the bark scorpion’s painful sting, but the desert-dwelling grasshopper mouse can brush ...

Resisting pain The discovery that a type of mouse feels no pain from scorpion venom has revealed a new strategy for developing pain-killing drugs. The grasshopper mouse can feast on bark scorpions ...