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In the 1959 horror movie “The Killer Shrews,” giant shrews from an experiment gone wrong attack people stranded on an island during a hurricane. The giant shrews terrorize the castaways with sharp ...

“There are more than 250 species of shrew worldwide. The northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) pictured here is one of four shrew species known to inhabit Chautauqua County. Shrews are ...

I read, with fascination, your article on venoms as drug candidates (5 May, p 34). Your readers might be interested in a little-known venom from a mammal. A shrew in eastern North America, Blarina ...

Davis, B. J., Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 57, 145 (1952).