OCONOMOWOC - Children might not be the only ones frolicking on a popular all-inclusive Oconomowoc playground, and that has sent city officials on a mouse hunt. Or is it a shrew, the more outdoorsy ...

The neurotoxic saliva of the short-tailed shrew is a unique adaptation among North American mammals. Its poisonous bite is a result of secretions of the submaxillary glands which contain enough toxin ...

An elongated snout is a common feature of various shrew species, many of which look like long-nosed mice externally, though shrews are not classified as rodents. Dumbacher likened the newly ...

It has the body of a mouse, the snout of an anteater, and the poor vision of a mole, and it’s creating tunnels and holes in ...

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

It consumed parts of the bodies of 20 masked shrews, one white-footed mouse, one red-backed vole, one pygmy shrew, plus 22 grasshoppers, 20 houseflies, 2 crane flies, one beetle, and the liver of a ...

The mice/Lyme theory is based on studies of animals caught in traps. But it turns out that shrews, moles, squirrels, chipmunks and other possible carriers of the bacteria that causes Lyme disease ...

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 ...

That's the case with the newly-described shrew-mouse. In 2007 and 2010, Balete went on expeditions to Mount Kampalili on the island of Mindanao as part of a Field Museum collaboration with the ...

(Credit: Danny Balete) Photograph of the holotype of the newly discovered mouse. A shrew-like mouse species recently discovered in the mountains of the Philippines may play a vital role in the ...

"It is kind of interesting to imagine all these great big dinosaurs marching around" alongside the shrew-like animal, Eberle told Insider. "These are smaller than your average house mouse ...