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

Pepper the cat is at it again. After his hunting skills helped virologists identify the first jeilongvirus in the United ...

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

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

The masked shrew or common shrew (Sorex cinereus) is the most widely distributed shrew found in North America and the common shrew (Sorex araneus) is commonly found in the U.K.

What Are Shrews? Shrews are mole-like mammals belonging to the Soricidae family. At a quick glance, you may confuse them for mice, but they are not rodents. They are actually more closely related to ...

Adaptive gene expression in the common shrew hypothalamus connects energy homeostasis with reversible brain size changes in response to seasonal environmental challenges.

As Shrew Like It: Elusive Californian Mammal Photographed For First Time A trio of students took on the challenge of capturing the first photographs of this tiny mammal.

Common shrew in the snow. (Hanna Knutsson/CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0) It's not unusual for animals like bears to build their body mass in the lead-up to winter, stockpiling fat while dialing down their ...

The western pygmy shrew is the smallest mammal found in Montana. They live in the northwest and northeast corners of the state. Measuring only about 2- to 4-inches long, including their tail, the ...