Hardcore Mice use Scorpion Venom as a Painkiller

Hardcore Mice use Scorpion Venom as a Painkiller

Posted August 28, 2018

Featured

View All
  • Hardcore Mice use Scorpion Venom as a Painkiller
    PBS Eons
    PBS Eons
    How the Formation of Pangea Changed the World | Eons: Life and Death on Pangea
    Play Video Icon Watch Now
  • Hardcore Mice use Scorpion Venom as a Painkiller
    SciShow
    SciShow
    Why Are There No Wild Cows?
    Play Video Icon Watch Now
  • Hardcore Mice use Scorpion Venom as a Painkiller
    Bizarre Beasts
    Bizarre Beasts
    Why Do Treehoppers Look…Like That?
    Play Video Icon Watch Now
  • About Episode
  • Transcript

SciShow

Support Show
Also On:

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

Hosted by: Olivia Gordon

Head to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe!
———-
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
———-
Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters
———-
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow
Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow
———-
Sources:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/24/this-mouse-turns-agonising-scorpion-venom-into-a-painkiller/
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6157/441
https://courses.washington.edu/conj/membrane/nachan.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2230911/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0183215
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381564/

View All
View All

Shop

Visit Complexly.store