“For every photo that we got in focus, we must have 10 or 20 photos where the shrew is running out of the frame,” says Jain to Sabrina Imbler at Defector. They took tissue samples from the ...

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 ...

The masked shrew displays characters typical of all shrews. The slender, cylindrical body has a short, velvety, directionless fur. The long, tapered head ends in a flexible, tubular snout, with the ...

They captured a couple of shrews in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains and took a few photos before setting the creatures free. Shrews have to eat frequently to stay alive due to their high ...

Shrews belong to a famously diverse mammalian family, Soricidae. One genus, Crocidura, contains more than 180 species. A team of scientists from the US, Indonesia, and Australia have now added to this ...

Among Adirondack mammals, pygmy shrews hold several records. Some adults weigh only 2-3 g (0.11 oz) and thus are the smallest mammals in the world. This species is also one of the rarest, with only ...

SHREW! purports to tell the "true" story of The Taming of the Shrew. It begins with pub landlady Mistress Slapbottom (Tessa Auberjonois) clearing the joint of all its rowdy revelers, leaving her ...