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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have published the first record of a noble false widow spider feeding on a pygmy shrew, a species of tiny mammal protected in Ireland. The pygmy shrew -- a protected mammal -- was captured ...