There is something inherently appealing about finding an animal few have seen in the wild. This could be a “lost” species or ...

Well over a century since its discovery, this tiny never-before-pictured mammal has been photographed alive. The pointy-nosed shrew spends their days nibbling on insects hiding under logs in the ...

When Auburn researchers discovered a new henipavirus in a local shrew, they named it after the small Tallapoosa County town ...

A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada ...

The shrew—the animal namesake of bad-tempered women—is the smallest but fiercest and most voraciously carnivorous of all mammals. The brown, beady-eyed, two-to four-inch creature looks like a ...

A rare species of shrew was just photographed in California for the first time in history in an exciting discovery for natural science. But the snaps weren't taken by professional researchers or ...

Shrews have extremely fast metabolisms and will ... genetically tested at the California Academy of Sciences. The elusive animal is native to the Eastern Sierra Nevada region and spends most ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years since the mammal was discovered.

Search results include a sketch of the animal, a map of its habitat range and shots of other California shrews, plucked from their Wikipedia pages. But photographs of a living Mount Lyell shrew ...

Researchers found first henipavirus strain in North America. What you need to know about new virus in wild animals living in ...

Researchers at Auburn University are part of a team that has discovered a new virus in North America. The virus, identified ...

‘Despite this shrew being a species of special concern ... altitude habitats that are quickly disappearing. ‘To find this animal, Vishal and his colleagues worked around the clock, staying ...