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 ...

Caper and Katherine are northern tree shrews, small mammals native to Southeast Asian forests who spend their days foraging ...

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

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

The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the first time in the 100 years since its discovery, thanks to a group of determined university students in California. The small, ...

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 ...

Caper and Katherine are northern tree shrews, small mammals native to Southeast Asian forests who spend their days foraging for fruit and insects, according to Potter Park Zoo. In January ...

The Mount Lyell shrew was captured in a photo for the first ... He and Jain were already taking photos of small mammals for their mammalogy class when they learned that this particular animal ...