“Handling the shrews was a little bit difficult,” Forbes told CNN, adding that they cut off a small piece of the shrews’ tails for genetic testing. “They bite and they’re venomous. So we had to ...

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 ...

LANSING, MI – A Michigan zoo is welcoming two new residents. Potter Park Zoo in Lansing announced Wednesday that two northern ...

The least shrew, a small but mighty insectivore, has quietly worked behind the scenes in Pennsylvanian farmlands for decades. However, since 1990 this species has been in danger of extinction.

The small external ears are barely visible or are completely hidden by the fur. The eyes are tiny, the tail scantily haired, and the limbs short. All are features adapting shrews to a semi-fossorial ...

The shrew—the animal namesake of bad-tempered women—is the smallest but fiercest and most voraciously carnivorous of all mammals. The brown, beady-eyed, two-to four-inch creature looks like a ...

Welcome to the world! On Jan. 13, 2025, Potter Park Zoo welcomed two Tupaia belangeri, or northern tree shrew pups, marking this the first successful litter from ...