The reason we have artists is because they perceive things most of us don't—from the poignancy of unheard melodies on a Grecian urn to the story of America retold in the rise and fall of a newspaper ...

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 ...

Dave Tosh, from the School of Biological Sciences at Queens University, found the greater white-toothed shrew in Tipperary and Limerick while working with University College Cork and BirdWatch Ireland ...

Barely known and never seen, elephant shrews baffle even the zoologists. With their stilt-like legs and long mobile trunk, joined to the body of a large shrew with a golden bottom, they certainly ...

Scientists have been surprised by a variety of Irish shrew never seen on the Emerald Isle before. The mouse-sized creature is the first new mammal to be discovered in Ireland in 44 years. A researcher ...

The shrew and its parasites -- even 40-year-old preserved ones -- are the new indicators of environmental change, according a researcher. A new study indicates a changes in shrews' ranges whenever the ...

We asked our friends at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville to spotlight something fascinating about our state. Though small, this fella packs a real punch. Northern short-tailed ...

A species of shrew has been found in Ireland for the first time - after it was discovered it was featuring on an owl's menu. Scientists were alerted by the size of a skull found in food remains passed ...

Scientists have been surprised to discover a new variety of shrew in Ireland. The mouse-sized creature is the first new mammal to be discovered there in 44 years. A researcher found skulls belonging ...

Greater white-toothed shrews could colonise abandoned farmland across Ireland by 2050. An invasive species of shrew is spreading across the Irish landscape at a rate of more than five kilometres a ...