A water shrew is an insectivore no bigger than a thumb but don't let its size fool you. A water shrew is a tiny insectivore no bigger than a human thumb. Because of poor eyesight, they must rely on a ...

Behold Scutisorex thori, a newly discovered species of hero shrew that has evolved an interlocking and extended vertebral column that gives it some remarkable superpowers. Found in the African Congo, ...

One of the Western Cape’s most mysterious mammals, the Boosmansbos long-tailed forest shrew, has made a reappearance 46 years after it was last recorded. The shrew, first described in 1979 by ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 1917, Joel Asaph Allen examined an innocuous species of shrew from the Congo Basin and made a remarkable discovery: the shrew’s spine was unlike ...

While shoveling out the driveway from the snow this past weekend I noticed tiny raised “bulges” of snow zigzagging across my yard. I immediately chalked these up to mice tunneling their way under the ...