Grasshopper mice take scorpion venom that could kill a human and use it to numb their pain. What makes these tiny mice so ...

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 ...

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 ...

I didn’t believe it until I actually heard it. There is an unusual mouse who literally howls at the Moon before killing its prey. Called the grasshopper mouse, it’s a rare carnivorous mouse who eats ...

The grasshopper mouse, a nocturnal creature that lives in abandoned burrows, is rarely found in Kansas, officials said. Photo from Diedre Kramer/KDWP A bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creature has been ...

The N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences will host a special screening this week of "Tiny Giants 3D," an award-winning movie that follows the stories of a chipmunk and a grasshopper mouse as they survive ...

A southern grasshopper mouse eats the Arizona bark scorpions that it has just killed. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 25 Oct., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, ...