image: Mearns' grasshopper mouse (Onychomys arenicola) is shown feeding on a captured striped bark scorpion (Centruroides vittatus). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 25 Oct., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Ashlee Rowe at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, and colleagues was titled, "Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel in Grasshopper Mice Defends Against Bark Scorpion Toxin." view more
Credit: [Photograph by Jillian Cowles]