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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 new species described in this study represents a possible intermediate between the original Hero Shrew and other shrews, since is possesses an interlocking spine, but with fewer lower ...

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.

A new species of the mysterious "Hero Shrew" has been discovered in Africa. Scientists first described the Hero Shrew, nicknamed for its extraordinary strength, over a century ago. Now for the ...

In recent years, a number of other new species have been found there, including the Udzungwa partridge, the Phillips’ Congo shrew, a monkey known as the kipunji, and several amphibians and reptiles.

Tiny Elephant Shrew Species Rediscovered in Africa After Disappearing 50 Years Ago. Elephant shrews are neither elephants nor shrews, and are more closely related to aardvarks. By.

Over 10 years, they trapped and examined 1368 individual shrews spread evenly across the island. Analysis of their physical features and DNA revealed that the team had found 21 species of shrew ...