Danielle Dufault of Animalogic took a look at the sengi, a tiny big-nosed mammal that is a long-lost relative of the elephant ...

While the function of the toxin is not clearly known, it probably serves to immobilize small animals and stun larger ones. A major part of the diet of the short-tailed shrew consists of small ...

The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil that’s been around since ...

Vespa orientalis fed an 80-percent-ethanol brew still did hornet tasks and had normal life spans. This trick may be an adaptation to gut-dwelling yeast.

To distill the secret behind this metabolic mastery, study co-author and zoologist Dorothée Huchon led a hunt for genetic ...

If you are looking for some wonder and whimsy from the animal kingdom to lift your spirits this week—some uplifting tale of a shrew that is so small that it sails on gusts of wind, or a fossil of an ...

To the best of our knowledge, Oriental hornets are the only animal in nature adapted to consuming alcohol as a metabolic fuel ...

Children’s book publishers were invited to submit up to 10 picture books published this year in the United States. The judges ...

She thought people might be more empathetic toward an animal than a human, so she sketched out a shrew character and began developing it with Jim Kay, the illustrator behind the book A Monster ...

Bush said she chose to depict her character as a shrew because she believed people would “probably be more empathetic” towards an animal than to a human. “I think to a certain extent we’ve ...

Fans will nod knowingly at those words. Bush hasn’t released any new music for 13 years. There was, of course, her run of ...