They traveled to the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where they focused their search in stream and wetland habitats in an otherwise desert ... traps — the only way to research small, burrowing mammals ...

Well over a century since its discovery, this tiny never-before-pictured mammal ... traps.’ The young mammologists found and snapped photos of five Mount lynell shrews in the high desert ...

Grazing animals can destroy many desert plants and animals ... and dig artificial grooves in the ground to retain rainfall and trap windblown seeds.

They gathered and analyzed data on more than 400 mammal species, representing one of the largest camera trap datasets in existence ... including arid desert, rainforests, arctic tundra, and ...