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 Research zoologist Neal Woodman ...

Some mammals hibernate to survive in winter, but the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) employs Dehnel's phenomenon to get through it. This is a metabolic process that enables shrews to conserve ...

A macro closeup shot of the smallest mammal in the world known as the Etruscan shrew sitting on a rock© Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock.com A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds ...

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 ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — The least shrew, a small but mighty insectivore, has quietly worked behind the scenes in Pennsylvanian farmlands for decades. However, since 1990 this species has been in danger of ...

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students to ...

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. For ...

Researchers affiliated with Aarhus University have discovered a unique change in a heart protein that explains how the tiny shrew can achieve a resting heart rate that is 10-17 times higher than that ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A palm-sized mammal that lives underground in California has been caught alive on camera for the first time. Three undergraduate ...