Imagine stumbling across a tiny creature darting across the African underbrush, its nose twitching and legs pumping like a ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Newly published research from UNC Greensboro biology professor Dr. Bryan McLean and colleagues shows that the masked shrew, a ...

The DNA of a long-nosed desert shrew newly discovered in Namibia reveals it as more closely related to elephants than mice. The new species of elephant shrew, given the scientific name ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

Newly published research shows that the masked shrew, a small, mole-like mammal found in the Appalachian Mountains, shrinks its body and braincase to conserve energy during winter months.

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 ...

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 ...

So, fall and winter temperatures predict Dehnel’s phenomenon in these animals.” “Phenotypic plasticity is a key way that shrews and many other species respond to changes in temperature,” McLean notes.