Long-clawed shrews exhibit unusual winter adaptations, shrinking their brains and skulls. However, their snouts grow ...

Long-clawed shrews’ snouts temporarily grow larger in the winter. This skull reshaping may be an extreme survival strategy in cold conditions.

When the Mangbetu people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo introduced Western scientists to a smoky-gray, rat-size animal, they told tales of how a grown man could stand on the mammal’s back ...

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 ...

Hero shrews have some of the weirdest backbones in the animal kingdom -- they're incredibly strong, with stories of a 0.25-pound shrew supporting a grown man standing on its back. No one knows what ...

While speediness is a priority for any animal trying to escape a predator or avoid a fall, a new study by Simon Fraser University researchers suggests that even the fastest reflexes among all animals ...

Elephant shrews are neither elephants nor shrews, and are more closely related to aardvarks The Somali sengi, an elephant shrew that seemingly vanished the face of the Earth 52 years ago, has been ...

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 ...

A mummified shrew found at Quesna suggests that ancient Egypt’s environment was once more wet than it is now. Abigail Eisenstadt Researchers study burial sites like the Falcon Necropolis at Quesna to ...