Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic portrait that had just been captured.

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 ...

The short-tailed shrew differs from other Adirondack shrews in having a blunter ... Mammalian predators may sometimes kill but then do not eat this species because of the “sour” odor produced by skin ...

Three undergraduate students came up with an idea to capture the elusive Mount Lyell shrew, native to the Eastern ... "highly prolific predators" that can eat several times their body mass on ...

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 ...