More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...

These little creatures have many predators (including weasels, foxes, snakes, and domestic cats), so having to relocate is a common experience for them. Shrews can have litters of up to 10 pups ...

"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 ...

The Pygmy Shrew is one of the most common items that cats bring home. Shrews have smelly anal scent glands, so cats don’t like to eat them. A well fed cat may bring a whole shrew showing off its ...

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 ...

While the shrew was still alive when it was caught ... The noble false widow is a very common species of spider in the UK, and generally reaches a body length of between 8.5 and 11 millimetres.

The shrew was still alive but barely moving as ... with a venom up to 230 times more potent than some common native spiders," Dunbar said. "Adapting to taking on vertebrate prey adds a new ...