Doing so was no easy feat. For one, the shrew is small, less than four inches long and about 0.15 ounces in weight. For another, the tiny creature has an incredibly high metabolism, which means ...

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 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 ...

“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 venomou ...