The Foodbank Players are carefully tweaking "The Taming of the Shrew," one of Shakespeare’s most sexist plays. "The result is a fun, whimsical, absurdist romp through Padua, complete with a new ...

MAMMALS come in all sizes from the largest of all, blue whales, to the smallest like the Least shrew. Whales are entirely aquatic and live in ocean environments. Shrews are land animals that can ...

For the first time in 46 years, one of the Western Cape’s most mysterious mammals, the Boosmansbos long-tailed forest shrew (Myosorex longicaudatus boosmani), has made a reappearance, exciting ...

The shrew was found on 4 May. Marienne de Villiers, an ecologist at CapeNature, said: “At last, I can take this little shrew off my biological bucket list.

Conservationists rejoice as the Boosmansbos long-tailed forest shrew, a species lost to researchers for 46 years, is rediscovered in CapeNature’s Boosmansbos Wilderness Area, marking a ...

“At last, I can take this little shrew off my biological bucket list. It’s been a bit like a unicorn for me – a mythical creature that I thought I would never get a chance to see in real life,” said ...

Paul J. Morris / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 The smallest tree shrew in the world is the pen-tailed tree shrew, which can weigh as little as 1.41 ounces and measure barely more than 5 inches.

PRAKRIT JAIN: Shrews are quite fast and not very personable, at least at first. They're always running away. If you try to pick them up, sometimes they might try to bite.

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Vishal Subramanyan and Prakrit Jain had never even heard of the rare shrew they would soon spend months chasing. The students were both in the same mammalogy class at the University of California, ...

Our shrews live very short, intense lives for mammals. Their life expectancy is about 6 months, although some individuals survive over one or even two winters. Shrews are born blind like kittens, but ...

Our shrews live very short, intense lives for mammals. Their life expectancy is about 6 months, although some individuals survive over one or even two winters. Shrews are born blind like kittens, but ...