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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At first glance, you’d swear it was a mouse or perhaps a small shrew, but look closer: this animal isn’t what it seems. Prepare to be surprised—what you’re seeing is called an elephant ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...