Most mammals take one of two approaches to survive the winter: they either hibernate, slowing their bodies to a near standstill, or they bulk up with extra fat to burn when food runs low. Then there’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Eurasian common shrew survives winter by shrinking its brain and organs by up to about 20 percent, then regrowing them in ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

If you’re not a biologist, the Mount Lyell shrew looks similar to other shrews that occupy the Sierra Nevada. It’s a small, grayish brown mammal with a pointy nose. Aside from its size, it’s not ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs one of the strangest tricks in biology, shrinking its own brain and skull ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Hispaniolan solenodon is a “living fossil” that survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Its lineage has remained ...

(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 ...

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 to ...

Most mammals take one of two approaches to survive the winter: they either hibernate, slowing their bodies to a near standstill, or they bulk up with extra fat to burn when food runs low. Then there’s ...

a dead greater white toothed shrew (Crocidura russula)© Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH/Shutterstock.com Deep in the leaf litter of Hispaniola lives a creature that defies modern evolutionary logic. The ...