On Nicobar Island, in the Indian Ocean, a most unusual hunting party is searching for food. Through the branches of the forest, the tiny Nicobar treeshrew scuttles about searching for insects.

Jan. 5 (UPI) --The tiny treeshrew is a breaker of evolutionary rules, specifically of the ecogeographical type. According to a new paper published this week in the journal Ecology and Evolution ...

Research findings on the evolution of northern treeshrews, a small species of mammal, contradict two of the most widely tested and accepted ecogeographical rules. A study published on Nov. 29 analyzed ...

Tupaia glis, the common treeshrew, defies two widely tested rules that describe patterns of geographical variation within species: the island rule and Bergmann's rule.

A new study has exposed the common treeshrew, a small and skittish mammal that inhabits the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, as an ecogeographical rule breaker. According to the study — published ...

Pen tailed treeshrew with a radio collar. Image courtesy of Annette Zitzmann. Well, according to a report in the current PNAS , our love for booze might lie much further back in our evolutionary ...

The common treeshrew – a small mammal native to Southeast Asia – appears fairly unremarkable at first glance. However, a new study has found that, in fact, the animal is an evolutionary rule ...

The treeshrew lives in the rainforests of Malaysia and its local drinking establishment is a large plant called the bertam palm. The palm develops large stems a few metres in length, ...

The treeshrew currently represents the oldest record of fossil tupaiids in the Siwalik range, extending their time range by 2.5-4.0 million years, ...

The pen-tailed treeshrew of Malaysia gets credit for having the world’s highest alcohol tolerance. Seven species of animals, including the treeshrew and the slow loris, ...

Humans and treeshrew are the only mammals known to actively seek out the heat of capsaicin. This isn't because our species or treeshrew are masochistic (at least not in most cases).

If you spot a treeshrew, there's a 71% chance that there's also a drongo around, and a 43% chance that a sparrowhawk is too. Meera Anna Oomen and Kartik Shanker discovered this strange coalition and ...