A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds like a myth, right? Well, it might’ve been one, until a tiny new ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a small brown shrew is about 1/3 of the size of the blue-gloved human hand it is sitting on. In preparation for winter, the common ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

If you’re not a biologist, the Mount Lyell shrew looks similar to other shrews that occupy the Sierra Nevada. It’s a small, grayish brown mammal with a pointy nose. Aside from its size, it’s not ...

Hero shrews may be small mammals that look like rodents, but they're strong, mighty and live up to their name on the inside. Their interlocking spine is unlike anything researchers have ever seen in ...

“A spiteful, nagging, and ill-tempered person” is one definition of a shrew. Two species of shrews, of the animal nature, occur in our area and this name association hasn’t improved their images.

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel’s phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. How can ...

An energetic, squirrel-like critter with a penchant for spicy food recently gave birth to two pups at a Michigan zoo. Caper and Katherine are northern tree shrews, small mammals native to Southeast ...