The pictures they ultimately took made history. Previously, the Mount Lyell shrew had been the only California mammal known to science that hadn’t been documented on film. Their small stature ...

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 ...

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 ...