Shrew Are You? Scientist Discovers Two New Species of Shrews in Museum’s Collection Hailing from the mountains of Colombia, the new shrews fill in a geographical gap and are among a growing ...

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 ...

The short-tailed shrew differs from other Adirondack shrews in having a blunter snout, a shorter tail that is less than 25% of the total length, a heavier more cylindrical body, and fleshy feet.

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 ...

A pygmy shrew kept in captivity provides some notion of the energy requirements of the species. It consumed parts of the bodies of 20 masked shrews, one white-footed mouse, one red-backed vole, one ...

It has the body of a mouse, the snout of an anteater, and the poor vision of a mole, and it’s creating tunnels and holes in your lawn. I’m talking, of course, about the shrew. This tiny mammal doesn’t ...

The greater white-toothed shrew has become the UK ’s first mammal species in a century after a social media post led to the animal’s discovery. A Facebook picture of the animal caught by a cat ...

The shrew hasn’t been trapped or recorded in two decades, Subramanyan told SFGATE: “So it’s very possibly one of the most poorly known mammal species in California.” ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have known about a shrew living in the mountains around Yosemite National Park. California designated it a "species of special concern," but nobody had seen it.

One species of shrew lives in the water. Young shrews will sometimes travel together by forming a chain, each one grabbing the tail of the shrew in front of it to follow their mother.

There are millions of animals all around the world. The smallest land animal is the Etruscan shrew. The smallest sea creature is the zooplankton.

Gene Expression Shifts as Shrews Shrink and Regrow Their Brains Transcriptomic studies of the shrew’s remarkably plastic brain could provide new insights into neurodegenerative diseases.