A TINY animal that looks just like a mint humbug sweet has been spotted in Britain for the first time. The creature, a pygmy ...

At first glance the common shrew is unremarkable. Between 5 and 8 centimetres long, it looks like a mouse with a pointed nose, or perhaps a miniature mole. If you saw it scurry through a field ...

They caught 100 live common shrews (Sorex araneus) during the spring and anesthetized them. They measured the shrews' overall sizes and used computer imaging and X-rays to look at the size of ...

With a life-expectancy of barely a year, the poor ol' Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) has no desire to waste precious months catching Zs beneath the snow drifts. It instead evolved a very ...

Anita McMillan made the astounding discovery near St Austell and quickly informed her family members, who advised her to ...

Anita McMillan was out walking in the countryside near St Austell when she spotted the pygmy shrew in the wild, and made the ...

Last year, about 30 common shrews from the area around Möggingen had an unusual adventure. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Radolfzell captured the animals, measured ...

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

Shrews are suspected to be a potential reservoir of the Langya virus. Above, a common shrew (Sorex araneus) Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) Scientists in China have found a new virus that has ...

By tracking the skull measurements of wild common shrews (Sorex araneus) over the course of a year, the researchers were able to show how individual shrews shrank and regrew their skulls.

Shrews use a primitive form of sonar to navigate their cluttered habitats of underbrush, according to a new study.