That was back in 1910, and since then, studies of the animal in question—which came to be called the hero shrew—have cast light on what may account for such lore. (Another species of hero ...

It’s no wonder why the tiny California mammal appears so stunned — the Mount Lyell shrew photographed in the Sierra Nevada had never seen a camera before. And until recently, no camera had ...

At first glance, hero shrews don’t appear to live up to their name. But these fuzzy, molelike animals are the Clark Kents of the shrew world, with superpowers hidden beneath their humble exteriors.

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students ...

It was finally ready for its close-up. The rare Mount Lyell shrew was recently photographed for the first time by a group of college students. The pointy-nosed, beady-eyed, greyish-brown creature ...

He sets his Shrew in a contemporary city, outside a hideous looking neon-lit hotel, where dancing, drunken yobs set their sexual sights upon a pole dancer. Stephen Boxer’s inebriated Sly ...