Ian O’Doherty’s column on David Olusoga’s defence of leaving offens­ive language in the past where it belongs, but not erasing it, was a welcome blast of common sense (‘Historian is right – we need to ...

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

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Also recorded were four species of small mammal (common shrews, brown rats, Eurasian pygmy shrews, and wood mice), along with three species of bush cricket and two audible moth species.

"We don't know how common Dehnel's phenomenon is among mammals ... The team used "pitfall traps" buried in leaf litter to capture the shrews. The animals were weighed in the field, then brought ...

Ten other shrew species call Montana home, the most common being the dusky and masked shrew, according to Montana State University. Here are some cool shrew facts: Shrews must eat almost ...

This year’s show is The Taming of the Shrew directed by Curtain Call veteran ... he wrote for the common person, not for the elite who were educated. It’s tempting to try to find something ...

When it comes to lifespan, we mammals have an astonishing range. The common shrew lives less than two years; bowhead whales thrive for at least 211 years. Why the discrepancy? Part of it, according to ...

Suffixes are often a little simpler and follow a common trend - '-ton' for example, is the basic Norse word for a farmstead or small village and the origin of the word 'town'. Meanwhile '-ham ...

The island of Madagascar is home to several unusual animals. If you've ever seen the film Madagascar you'll be familiar with the lemur and the fossa, but have you ever heard of a tenrec? With just a ...

Dunbar’s team has also seen a common ground lizard and a small bat tangled up in a noble false widow spider’s sticky web. “The fact that this spider was able to lift a shrew 10 times its ...