Some mammals hibernate to survive in winter, but the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) employs Dehnel's phenomenon to get through it. This is a metabolic process that enables shrews to conserve ...

Two new studies further advance an understanding of how shrews adapt to the cold season by shrinking their brains and bodies. Some mammals hibernate to survive in winter, but the Eurasian common shrew ...

Deep on Yongde Snow Mountain in China's Yunnan Province, at roughly 2,000 meters above sea level, a single female shrew ...

Title Evolution and biogeography of Mexican small-eared shrews of the Cryptotis mexicana-group (Insectivora: Soricidae) ...

Vertebrate biologist Rainer Hutterer of the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum in Bonn, Germany, and colleagues collected the new species in the Republic of Congo. The team described the ...

High up in the Sierra Nevada, the tiny Mount Lyell shrew has been shying away from cameras since it was first identified almost 100 years ago. Despite being a documented species, it was the only known ...