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.

The African spiny mouse is known for its ability to allow its skin to rip off its tail when being grabbed by predators because it can regenerate the missing bits.

A mouse species often kept as an exotic pet can regenerate lost skin, according to a new study. The discovery may provide insights into how to create new tissue-generating treatments for people ...

The African spiny mouse could become a new model for research in regenerative medicine. “The African spiny mouse appears to regenerate ear tissue in much the way that a salamander regrows a limb that ...

When Marvel Comics created a short superhero who could heal horrific injuries, perhaps instead of “Wolverine”, they should have named him “African spiny mouse”. These tiny rodents can ...

And that's just what the African spiny mouse does. Its wounds heal incredibly quickly, and it fully regenerates the cartilage, skin, and hair that it's lost. Within about a month, ...

While scanning the African spiny mouse for the oVert project, Edward Stanley at the Florida Museum of Natural History found that this mammal possesses bony plates called osteoderms in its tail.

Osteoderms in a mammal the spiny mouse Acomys and the independent evolution of dermal armor. iScience , 2023; 106779 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106779 Cite This Page : ...

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.

African spiny mice escape predators by shedding patches of their skin. Image: Unsplash. When caught or bitten, the spiny mice can shed large patches of skin as a defense mechanism.

Researchers just discovered that the spiny mouse was concealing bony plates beneath the skin over its tail. By Asher Elbein At first it looks like a slightly more hairy rodent. But the spiny mouse ...

The African dwarf mouse (Mus minutoides) may be one of the world's smallest rodents, but it has invented nothing less than a third sex. This quirk of nature was discovered by a French specialist ...