Adults weigh 3-6.5 g (0.11-0.23 oz.). The masked shrew is intermediate in size between the smaller, more slender pygmy shrew and the larger ... buried in the fur of the rump of a sibling. Although ...

Over the next 20 minutes, Sturgess watched the female noble false widow spider hoist the immobilized, matchbox-sized Eurasian pygmy shrew—which was many times larger than the spider—nearly 10 ...

The western pygmy shrew is the smallest mammal found ... A recent study at Stony Brook University found the Eurasian common shrew, which doesn't live in Montana, can shrink its brain, skull ...

The others, the pygmy shrew and common or Eurasian shrew, offer no such threat. One of the most abundant small mammals, with up to 20 per acre of meadow, the common shrew isn’t a rodent, but most ...

Scientists have revealed footage of a terrifying noble false widow spider feeding on an unsuspecting pygmy shrew for the first time. The gruesome incident occurred in Chichester, West Sussex ...

The greater white-toothed shrew has never before been found before on mainland Britain. Ecologists are worried, however, that the animal could wipe out populations of the UK's pygmy shrews ...