North America’s tiniest mammal – will boggle your mind. Ten species live in Washington state. And as you read this, thousands of them are darting around the ground like over-caffeinated furballs while ...

A shrew's brain and other organs can shrink by as much as 30% and then grow back in the spring. Once the brain of a human being shrinks, it remains in that state.

Wildlife researchers capture rare photograph of Sonnerat's shrew, believed extinct for over 200 years, in the Nilgiris.

Among Adirondack mammals, pygmy shrews hold several records. Some adults weigh only 2-3 g (0.11 oz) and thus are the smallest mammals in the world. This species is also one of the rarest, with only ...

The smoky shrew occurs from southeastern Canada to northern Georgia where it occupies the high elevations of the Appalachian Mountains. Its distribution within the northeast U.S. is spotty, owing ...

A Buena Vista Lake shrew (Sorex ornatus relictus) being held in someone's hand. Shrews have an unusual way of surviving the winter: they temporarily shrink. Now scientists, including one from Stony ...

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(Reuters) - A new mammal discovered in the remote desert of western Africa resembles a long-nosed mouse in appearance but is more closely related genetically to elephants, a California scientist who ...

The Taming Of The Shrew is one of those Shakespeare plays that has the reputation of being 'difficult'. As with Othello or Merchant Of Venice, four hundred years on, there are new challenges. And in ...