While furry critters scurrying around your yard can be alarming, there is something so endearing about a shrew train that you ...

At first glance the common shrew is unremarkable. Between 5 and 8 centimetres long, it looks like a mouse with a pointed nose, or perhaps a miniature mole. If you saw it scurry through a field ...

N ew research shows how the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) changes its brain and bodily size throughout the year. The study, published online in eLife, reveals how changes in gene ...

Now, a new study heaps a little more shrew weirdness. As Bret Stetka at Scientific American reports, during the winter the skulls of the common shrew—Sorex araneus, which is found in ...

This slender-bodied, slate gray insectivore named for its long tail or habitat, depending on which common name one chooses ... With few exceptions, the rock shrew requires a cool, moist site with a ...

Even at sub-zero temperatures, common shrews do not need to increase their metabolism. Last year, about 30 common shrews from the area around Möggingen had an unusual adventure. Researchers at ...

The Northern short-tailed shrew is a small, energetic mammal that ... in their saliva have evolved in very similar ways from a common ancestor, converging on parallel lethal structures independent ...

Squirrels, mice, voles and shrews do not. Hedgehogs, bats and dormice do hibernate but that is all. One of my favourite small mammals is the common shrew which is an aggressive little blighter.

The judges, as it were, are looking for “(s)omething that does for this shrew doppelgänger what Lucy ... to remind you of two things. First, the common ancestor is a species and contains ...

Common shrews have one of the highest metabolic rates among mammals. They must therefore consume a considerable amount of energy for their relatively low body weight. Because their fat reserves are ...