When Francesco Rovero first saw the image captured by one of his automatic cameras in a remote Tanzanian forest, he knew he'd never seen anything quite like it. It was the size of a small dog, covered ...

Researchers have spotted specimens of an incredibly rare species of elephant shrew for the first time in over half a century. The creatures were on the "lost species" list and nobody knew if they were ...

Analyses of the fossilized remains of the jaws and teeth of a shrew discovered in Spain have shown this to be a new species. The extinct animal had red teeth, was large in size compared with mammals ...

Researchers at Louisiana State University have discovered a new species of shrew, which they have named the hairy-tailed shrew, or Crocidura caudipilosa. "There was no doubt that this was a new ...