Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years since the mammal was discovered.

"The hardest part of getting the photos was one, they're incredibly fast cuz they're always running around," Subramanyan told CBS News. Another reason the Mount Lynell shrews had never been ...

Having photos and video of the shrew helps scientists know more about the species – and can help efforts to conserve it. Mammal specimens are often studied as skin or skeleton, or a whole animal ...

LANSING, MI – A Michigan zoo is welcoming two new residents. Potter Park Zoo in Lansing announced Wednesday that two northern ...

You can now feast your eyes on the mysterious and very elusive Mount Lyell Shrew. It's a shy little creature. In fact, this is the first time this creature has ever been photographed alive before.

Welcome to the world! On Jan. 13, 2025, Potter Park Zoo welcomed two Tupaia belangeri, or northern tree shrew pups, marking this the first successful litter from ...

Mount Lyell shrews were first described a century ago ... means much more than just getting some cute photos. "If we look at the extinction crisis and the types of animals it’s impacting ...

The shrew—the animal namesake of bad-tempered women—is the smallest but fiercest and most voraciously carnivorous of all mammals. The brown, beady-eyed, two-to four-inch creature looks like a ...

Potter Park Zoo introduces 2 new northern tree shrew pups that were born on Jan. 13, 2025. Officials say that this is the ...