When you envision a black bear, you may picture our state’s second largest mammal as being a big, meat-eating killer. Technically, black bears are omnivores. Omnivores eat plants and animals. But did ...

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.

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(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 ...

The Mount Lyell shrew was captured in a photo for the first ... The shrews are "highly prolific predators" that can eat several times their body mass on a daily basis, Jain said.

Lyell shrew, a mouse-like mammal that lives in the ... for three days and four nights because the shrews die if they don't eat every few hours, making them difficult to capture alive and photograph.