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Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years since the mammal was discovered.

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 ...

There’s a reason why nobody had photographed a living Mount Lyell shrew. Shrews have incredibly fast metabolisms and will die if they don’t eat every two hours, Subramanyan said. To catch a ...

The Mount Lyell Shrew, and shrews in general, are tough animals to capture because they die quickly unless they are constantly eating due to their high metabolism. Luckily the shrews were right as ...

(CNN) — 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 ...