North America’s tiniest mammal – will boggle your mind. Ten species live in Washington state. And as you read this, thousands of them are darting around the ground like over-caffeinated furballs while ...

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 ...

Wildlife researchers capture rare photograph of Sonnerat's shrew, believed extinct for over 200 years, in the Nilgiris.

CNN — The world's oldest mammal has been identified using fossil dental records -- predating the previously confirmed earliest mammal by about 20 million years -- in a new discovery hailed as "very ...

Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic portrait that had just been captured. Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever ...

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 ...

Researchers recently made a major discovery -- 14 new species of shrews, which is the largest number of new mammals described in a scientific paper since 1931. After a decade-long journey taking ...

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 ...