After learning that the Mount Lyell shrew was the only California mammal that had never been photographed alive, they made it their mission to track down the creature and snap some pictures.

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 ...

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 ...

The natural history of the pygmy shrew is poorly known for all parts of its range. The pygmy shrew occurs throughout most of the boreal and northern temperate forests of North America, and along a ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– Welcome to the world! On Jan. 13, 2025, Potter Park Zoo welcomed two Tupaia belangeri, or northern tree shrew pups, marking this the first successful litter from parents ...

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 ...