The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

Researchers have spotted specimens of an incredibly rare species of elephant shrew for the first time in over half a century. The creatures were on the "lost species" list and nobody knew if they were ...

Hero shrews may be small mammals that look like rodents, but they’re strong, mighty and live up to their name on the inside. Their interlocking spine is unlike anything researchers have ever seen in ...

In 1910, a pair of scientists exploring what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo came across a shrew of improbable furriness and size (though it still weighed in at just a tenth of a pound).

The Greater White-Toothed Shrew – which is described as looking similar to a character in children's TV show The Clangers – has never before been found before on mainland Britain. Ecologists are ...

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 ...

The world's oldest known mammal has been identified using dental records – predating what scientists previously thought was the first mammal to walk the Earth by millions of years – according to new ...

Researchers from Japan suggest that the tree shrew may be a practical small-animal model for studying the progression of human hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. This discovery would replace the need ...

IF you know where to find a good shrew, then Aldine resident William Keith really wants to hear from you. "If anybody knows what a shrew is, and if you have shrews on your property, please call me," ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. In equatorial Africa is a small shrew that can bear the weight of an adult human for minutes at a ...