If you’re not a biologist, the Mount Lyell shrew looks similar to other shrews that occupy the Sierra Nevada. It’s a small, grayish brown mammal with a pointy nose. Aside from its size, it’s not ...

The post Shrews Shrink Their Brains in Winter, and That’s Not Even Their Weirdest Trait appeared first on A-Z Animals. There is a small mammal living in a field near you that you may have caught sight ...

Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic portrait that had just been captured. Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever ...

The traditional view that shrews are primitive mammals is challenged by a new study of the hunting methods of an aquatic member of the species, the water shrew, that finds it uses remarkably ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

It has the body of a mouse, the snout of an anteater, and the poor vision of a mole, and it's creating tunnels and holes in your lawn. I'm talking, of course, about the shrew. This tiny mammal doesn't ...

The short-tailed shrew might be cute and tiny, but it has a nasty bite, so the hand holding it needs that heavy glove. (Clay Wollney) Many predatory animals immobilize their prey or defend themselves ...

Sometimes it is hard to tell some of our small Indiana mammals apart. Mice, moles, voles and shrews are all very similar in appearance. Recently, I received some calls about little mammals that the ...