Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. New research from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has shown that there’s more to the ...

In 1999, common house mice overran a portion of Orange and Lake counties. More than $1 million was spent to trap more than 7,000 of the pests in about 50 square miles from Ocoee into Lake County. D… ...

CT scans revealed a layer of bony scales, or osteoderms, hidden beneath the skin of the tails in spiny mice.

Researchers from two groups studying mouse development have accidentally created mice with unusually long and unusually short tails. Their findings, publishing January 17 in the journal ...

CT scans revealed the bony plates in the rodents’ tails. The hidden armor may protect against attacking predators or other spiny mice.

Why do mice have tails? The answer to this is not as simple as you might think. New research from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has shown that there's more to the humble ...

The question about whether one is a man or mouse is made redundant today by an £80 million international scientific programme that concludes that men are mice without tails. Today's publication ...

Scores of scientific studies based on mice thrown into doubt because they were picked up by the tail Mice picked up by the tail – standard practice in labs – are stressed and anxious so don't ...

To form new skin, grow fresh tails and seal up ear-holes without scarring, spiny mice use a blastema-like cell—a mass of cells typical in newts and salamanders.

Scientists have discovered a genetic pathway that controls tail development in mice while investigating genes related to physiological development for cancer research.

Researchers from two groups studying mouse development have accidentally created mice with unusually long and unusually short tails. Their findings, publishing January 17 in the journal ...