Rodents called grasshopper mice have an unusual favorite food. Not grasshoppers. No, they really like scorpions. You can see the problem. But the mice shrug off any scorpion stings. And a new study ...

Move aside, honey badger. There’s a new contender for the most badass mammal: the southern grasshopper mouse. This little creature from the south-western USA attacks and eats bark scorpions—a group of ...

There’s a chemical arms race underway in the desert along the U.S.-Mexico border. But rather than pitting two armies, it’s a showdown between a highly venomous scorpion and a particularly ferocious ...

Grasshopper mice have evolved biochemical pathways that thwart scorpion venom by reacting to it as a painkiller. Sophie Bushwick reports. Rodents called grasshopper mice have an unusual favorite food.

The desert-inhabiting grasshopper mouse has managed to negate the pain caused by a scorpion's sting and managed to gobble it up. If you're wondering how, then scientists believe it is courtesy of ...

When the grasshopper mouse attacks a bark scorpion, it barely notices the arachnid's intensely painful sting. Now researchers know why: the rodents have a mutation in the cellular pathway that ...

A jaw-dropping new video shows a fuzzy little mouse as a fearsome fighter, attacking and killing a venomous scorpion in slow motion. The new mouse-scorpion video, released on YouTube by Michigan State ...

The southern grasshopper mouse is a furry, brown and frankly kind of cute little rodent found in the deserts of the southwest United States and Mexico that looks pretty much like a regular house mouse ...

This mouse uses scorpion venom as a painkiller so it can eat them without being effected by their sting at all. This mouse uses scorpion venom as a painkiller so it can eat them without being effected ...

A venomous bark scorpion, its stinger poised to strike, confronts a furry, little grasshopper mouse somewhere in the desert. A deadly melee is about to begin and you won’t believe who wins. Even ...

In the dark expanses of the Sonoran desert in the US, a terrifying creature stalks the night, searching for fresh meat. Anything will do: crickets, rodents, tarantulas – the nastier the better. Even ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A jaw-dropping new video shows a fuzzy little mouse as a fearsome fighter, attacking and killing ...