Hailing from the mountains of Colombia, the new shrews fill in a geographical gap and are among a growing number of species discovered in collections Jack Tamisiea Research zoologist Neal Woodman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pitfall trapping phase was essential to capture shrews that remain invisible to standard tools. A mammal that weighs about as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A macro closeup shot of the smallest mammal in the world known as the Etruscan shrew sitting on a rock© Wirestock ...

Among Adirondack mammals, pygmy shrews hold several records. Some adults weigh only 2-3 g (0.11 oz) and thus are the smallest mammals in the world. This species is also one of the rarest, with only ...

Shrews belong to a famously diverse mammalian family, Soricidae. One genus, Crocidura, contains more than 180 species. A team of scientists from the US, Indonesia, and Australia have now added to this ...

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Fourteen new species of shrew have been discovered during a decade-long survey of small mammals on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Shrews are a diverse group of small mammals that can be found ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A new species of shrew has been found in ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of shrew, which they have named the hairy-tailed shrew, or Crocidura caudipilosa. Researchers at Louisiana State University have discovered a new species of ...