A writhing, twisting, snake scurrying on over 30 legs might not sound like your idea of fun, but this strange beast has millions of eyes glued to it this week. In a video that was posted to Twitter on ...

The Christmas Island shrew, the only shrew species native to Australia, has been officially declared extinct. This small mammal, once endemic to the isolated Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, has ...

“A spiteful, nagging, and ill-tempered person” is one definition of a shrew. Two species of shrews, of the animal nature, occur in our area and this name association hasn’t improved their images.

There’s a reason the few photos available of the Sherman’s short-tailed shrew are of dead ones: That may be the only kind left or, they may never have existed at all. If they did, the only place on ...

Australia has lost another native mammal, the Christmas Island shrew, officially declared extinct. This tiny insect-eating mammal was Australia's only shrew species. Its disappearance highlights the ...

Analyses of the fossilized remains of the jaws and teeth of a shrew discovered in Spain have shown this to be a new species. The extinct animal had red teeth, was large in size compared with mammals ...