Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

The African spiny mouse has an impressive ability to regenerate skin, hair, and ear tissue. This helps them escape predators by shedding skin when caught. Found in Africa, these rodents are studied ...

African Spiny Mouse. Photo by Robert Schwarz Spinal cord injuries represent some of the most devastating traumas in human medicine, often resulting in permanent paralysis and sensory loss. When the ...

Tissue regeneration is common in crustaceans, insects, reptiles and amphibians. African spiny mice (ASM) evolve to shed a large portion of skin to escape from predators. They have been recently ...

It’s 1963. You’re an African spiny mouse in Egypt. You mostly eat dates, but you’re known to consume the dried flesh of local mummies; your species was here long before they were.

A peculiar tail Between this CT scan from Stanley and lab work from Maden’s team, we’ve learned that the spiny mouse is the only other modern mammal besides the armadillo to possess bony ...

In 2016, the spiny mouse—a rodent that thrives in the dry conditions of the Middle East, South Asia, and parts of Africa—joined the exclusive club of animals known to menstruate.

The outer skin and its complement of bone plating pull away from the tail when attacked, affording the mouse a quick escape. Reference: “Osteoderms in a mammal the spiny mouse Acomys and the ...

African spiny mouse joins a small but mighty group of bony plated mammals The small to medium sized produce spiny structures under their skin of their tails—and can even regrow them. By Laura Baisas ...

African spiny mice, which were previously thought to lack any distinguishing characteristics, have now been discovered to have osteoderms, which are bone structures resembling those of armadillos.

Tail loss is so common in some spiny mouse species that nearly half the individuals of a given population have been shown to lack them in the wild. “This was a real head-scratcher,” Stanley said.