Islanders most often encounter shrews as trophies brought home by cats, who delight in playing with these tiny, frenetic mammals but disdain to eat them. Shrews play an important but unseen role ...

The Mt. Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the central Sierra Nevada, has never been photographed in the 100 years since it was discovered. It took three industrious college students ...

The masked shrew displays characters typical of all shrews. The slender, cylindrical body has a short, velvety, directionless fur. The long, tapered head ends in a flexible, tubular snout, with the ...

The shrews are "highly prolific predators" that ... in the food chain for other predators such as snakes, owls and wild cats.

To catch the shrews, the team set up 150 pitfall traps baited with worms and cat food, which they checked every two hours to ensure the welfare of the shrews. It wasn’t long before they struck gold.

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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 ...

This grey-black to blackish-brown shrew with a pointed, down-drooping nose averages 147-157 mm (5.8-6.2 in) in length, and is the longest of the Adirondack shrews. It weighs 10-17 g (0.35-0.60 oz), ...