The range of this abundant and widespread species includes the southern half of eastern Canada, and the eastern half of the U.S. Mixed and deciduous hardwood forest with thick, damp leaf mold harbor ...

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

Shrews belong to a famously diverse mammalian family, Soricidae. One genus, Crocidura, contains more than 180 species. A team of scientists from the US, Indonesia, and Australia have now added to this ...

Water shrews occur from southern Alaska south and east across Canada, parts of the western, northern, and northeastern U.S. The range coincides with the boreal and mixed forests. Records of Adirondack ...

Shrews are primarily insectivorous but sometimes eat nuts, seeds, other plant matter, and even small mammals. Some species of shrew have venom in their teeth, used as a form of defense and a ...

In 1988 an effort was mounted to save this tiny mammal when the Interfaith Council for the Protection of Animals and Nature petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the shrew as an ...

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Furthermore, the authors speculated that pro- and anti-apoptotic factors may help the shrew control both cell death and cell proliferation during this process. While this study identified many ...