Though they are rarely seen, shrews are incredibly common. There are hundreds of species known across the world, and they ...

I’m talking, of course, about the shrew. This tiny mammal doesn’t actually cause nearly as much damage as the rodents it ...

The researchers started by analyzing gene expression in shrews across different points in the lifecycle, including in autumn (when the shrews’ brains were shrinking) and in spring (when their brains ...

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 ...

It turns out that, at least on Martha's Vineyard, it is the shrews who harbor the most disease-bearing young ticks, says Heidi Goethert, Sc.D., J93, research assistant professor at Cummings School.