Living underground, shrews are hard to spot. However, a few signs can help you spot them.

"Myopia boom" refers to a predicted rise from 2.8 billion current cases worldwide to 4.8 billion by 2050. A recent study in ...

Hero shrews have some of the weirdest backbones in the animal kingdom -- they're incredibly strong, with stories of a 0.25-pound shrew supporting a grown man standing on its back. No one knows what ...

Long-clawed shrews exhibit unusual winter adaptations, shrinking their brains and skulls. However, their snouts grow ...

Some animals grow thicker coats to survive winter, but one tiny mammal takes a far stranger approach, physically ...

In recent years, the lines that traditionally separate humans from other animals have gotten very blurry; crows and chimps use tools, some insects know how to farm, and species across the spectrum ...

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel's phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. How can ...

There is a small mammal living in a field near you that you may have caught sight of a few times but paid little attention to. We are talking about shrews, those mouse-like, velvety creatures with ...

Right now, as autumn descends upon the Northern Hemisphere, many animals are preparing for the frigid and lean winter months. Bears are going through a serious bulking phase. Hares and stoats are ...

While shrews are evasive and rarely seen, these small insectivorous mammals are very abundant. One species, the greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) is particularly successful: it is ...

When the Mangbetu people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo introduced Western scientists to a smoky-gray, rat-size animal, they told tales of how a grown man could stand on the mammal’s back ...