Weighing less than a nickel, a shrew can eat 7 pounds of slugs and insects in a year! Islanders most often encounter shrews as trophies brought home by cats, who delight in playing with these tiny, ...

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It was finally ready for its close-up. The rare Mount Lyell shrew was recently photographed for the first time by a group of college students. The pointy-nosed, beady-eyed, greyish-brown creature ...

If you’re not a biologist, the Mount Lyell shrew looks similar to other shrews that occupy the Sierra Nevada. It’s a small, grayish brown mammal with a pointy nose. Aside from its size ...

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

Genetic analyses have solved the riddle of where a marsupial mole fits on the tree of life: It’s a cousin to bilbies, bandicoots and Tasmanian devils.

Creatively directed by Catherine Boniface, and innovatively reimagined and set in the sordid, dangerous world of post-war ...

With their adorable smiles and cheeky disposition, Australia’s super cute quokkas are known as the ‘happiest animal in the ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...