Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pitfall trapping phase was essential to capture shrews that remain invisible to standard tools. A mammal that weighs about as ...

Hailing from the mountains of Colombia, the new shrews fill in a geographical gap and are among a growing number of species discovered in collections Jack Tamisiea Research zoologist Neal Woodman ...

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(CNN) — 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 ...

Australia has confirmed that its only native shrew, the Christmas Island shrew, is now extinct. The formal extinction statement was published via the IUCN Red List and backed by the authors of the ...

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 global inventory on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds like a myth, right? Well, it might've been one, until a tiny new shrew ...