Until last year, only one California mammal species had never been caught on camera. A group of Bay Area researchers just ...

October 4, 1986, contained one adult short-tailed shrew. Blus, L.J. 1971. Reproductive and survival of short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) in capitivity. Laboratory of Animal Science, 21:884-891.

Vishal Subramanyan and Prakrit Jain had never even heard of the rare shrew they would soon spend months chasing. The students were both in the same mammalogy class at the University of California, ...

Some adults weigh only 2-3 g (0.11 oz) and thus are the smallest mammals in the world. This species is also one of the rarest, with only nine records existing for the Adirondack Park, all from Essex ...

The elusive animal is native to the Eastern Sierra Nevada region and spends most of its time underground. It was first ...

Well over a century since its discovery, this tiny never-before-pictured mammal has been photographed alive. The pointy-nosed ...

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 ...

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 ...