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

Weighing less than a nickel, a shrew can eat 7 pounds of slugs and insects in a year! Islanders most often encounter shrews ...

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, ...

Although Eurasian shrews exhibit variations of this behavior, the masked shrew may be the only North American species to engage in it. Young born in the spring often breed later in the same year. The ...

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 ...

Ten other shrew species call Montana home, the most common being the dusky and masked shrew, according to Montana State University. Here are some cool shrew facts: Shrews must eat almost ...