Hailing from the mountains of Colombia, the new shrews fill in a geographical gap and are among a growing number of species discovered in collections Jack Tamisiea May 14, 2024 ...

Fourteen new species of shrew are discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi - the largest number of new mammals described since 1931. The 14 species were found following an almost decade ...

Scientists have described a new species of Hero Shrew -- the mammal with the most bizarre lower spine on Earth. The interlocking vertebrae of the Hero Shrew render the spine four to five times ...

The short-tailed shrew differs from other Adirondack shrews in having a blunter snout, a shorter tail that is less than 25% of ... 1964. Metabolism, food capacity, and feeding behavior in four species ...

Not since 1977 has a new mammal species been discovered in Arizona. But a Texas Tech University professor recently identified a new species of desert shrew that he first caught in the Santa Rita ...

Thursday’s announcement brings the number of described shrew-rat species up to six, and comes 121 years after British zoologist Oldfield Thomas first named the genus in 1898.

The Mount Lyell shrew, a tiny mammal that lives high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was first described 100 years ago, but the elusive creature had never been photographed alive. So, in November ...

Sporting dark red thighs and a black behind, a two-foot-long (0.6-meter-long) elephant shrew recently spotted in Kenya may be a new species, scientists say. If confirmed, the colorful creature ...

In fact, this latest species is the fourth new species of elephant shrew to have been discovered in just a decade. If anything, the world could do with more species of sengi.

The new species of elephant shrew, given the scientific name Macroscelides micus, inhabits an ancient volcanic formation in Namibia and sports red fur that helps it blend in with the color of its ...

A shrew-like mouse species recently discovered in the mountains of the Philippines may play a vital role in the survival of the endangered Philippine Eagle. The new species (Baletemys kampalili) is ...