It may be that there are no more shrews in Australia. There was only ever one representative, edging into the Australian political estate on the remote Christmas Island, closer to Java than any other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of ...

Australia has lost another native mammal, the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List on 10 ...

Once abundant on Christmas Island, the tiny, five-gram shrew (Crocidura trichura) filled the night forest with its high, thin cry before vanishing into silence. Introduced black rats and their ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out ...

Wildlife photographers have shared some of their most striking photos so far this spring. Phil Groves acknowledged it was a ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List , the world's most comprehensive ...