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 ...

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 ...