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

After more than twenty years without any sightings, the Mount Lyell shrew, a small and elusive mammal, has finally been captured in images by passionate students. This discovery marks a ...

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

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 ...

According to the University of California, Berkeley, the Mount Lyell shrew was the only California mammal known to science ...

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 ...

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.