The pygmy shrew occurs throughout most of the boreal and northern temperate ... Moist forest floors with an accumulation of debris offer optimum habitat, their crumbling logs, trunks, and the soil ...

The masked shrew displays characters typical of all shrews. The slender, cylindrical body has a short, velvety, directionless fur. The long, tapered head ends in a flexible, tubular snout, with the ...

With a voracious appetite for insects, a long snout, and beady little eyes, the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is one intriguing mammal. Today, 95 percent of its former one-million-acre wetland and ...

A 2015 UC Davis study found that as humans continue to pump out planet-warming greenhouse gases, the little-known Mountain Lyell shrew stands to lose up nearly 90% of its habitat. ‘When it comes ...

Etruscan shrews are 20 times lighter than the average adult mouse. They have a body length of about 4 cm excluding the tail ...

Habitat disturbances ... No larger than a human thumb and lighter than a penny, the Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), also known as the Etruscan pygmy shrew or the Pygmy white-toothed shrew ...

Mount Lyell shrews are extremely threatened by the climate crisis and could lose up to 90% of their cold, high altitude ...