A TINY animal that looks just like a mint humbug sweet has been spotted in Britain for the first time. The creature, a pygmy ...

With a life-expectancy of barely a year, the poor ol' Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) has no desire to waste precious months catching Zs beneath the snow drifts.It instead evolved a very ...

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 ...

Last year, about 30 common shrews from the area around Möggingen had an unusual adventure. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Radolfzell captured the animals, measured ...

They caught 100 live common shrews (Sorex araneus) during the spring and anesthetized them. They measured the shrews' overall sizes and used computer imaging and X-rays to look at the size of ...

Shrews use a primitive form of sonar to navigate their cluttered habitats of underbrush, according to a new study. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

As Bret Stetka at Scientific American reports, during the winter the skulls of the common shrew—Sorex araneus, which is found in Britain, Europe and parts of Asia—actually shrink with changing ...

The new animal appears to sit between the armored shrew and common shrews, and it’s helping to reveal the mystery behind the both creatures’ impressive spines.