This makes the Mount Lyell shrew the only known Californian mammal never to be photographed, until now. To students Vishal Subramanyan, Prakrit Jain, and Harper Forbes, this seemed like too good ...

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students ...

Some species, like the opossum and striped skunk, are rare and occur mostly at the periphery of the Adirondacks. Other species, such as the white-tailed deer and short-tailed shrew, are common and ...

From the Etruscan shrew, a creature so light it could ... Red List of Threatened Species. Native to Madagascar, like all lemurs, the mouse lemur holds the title of the world's smallest primate ...

And shrews are fearsome predators ... and rodents. But some species also go after deadlier prey. Like cobras, mambas, and other venomous snakes. And sure, it takes guts to battle a full-hooded ...

Shrews belong to a famously diverse mammalian family, Soricidae. One genus, Crocidura, contains more than 180 species. A team of scientists from the US, Indonesia, and Australia have now added to this ...

Shrews have smelly anal scent glands, so cats don’t like to eat them ... Shrew has the distinction of being Ireland’s smallest mammal. It differs from mice in that it is tiny, has a long ...

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 ...

Like many small herbivores ... The usual predators of small mammals eat meadow voles. Some of these are weasels, foxes, hawks, owls, the coyote, bobcat, and short-tailed shrew. Lindroth, R.L. and G.O.