These nests may be 30.5 cm (12 in) beneath the surface of the soil or under a rock or log. Food and Feeding Behavior: The neurotoxic saliva of the short-tailed shrew is a unique adaptation among North ...

The nest, made of plant fibers and 7.6-12.7 cm (3-5 in) in diameter, may be in decaying logs, stumps, the burrows of other mammals, or in the 19 mm (0.75 in) diameter tunnels the masked shrew digs in ...

A Nigerian man has cried out after finding things in his kitchen destroyed. He had travelled and checked his kitchen upon his ...

The Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), also known as the pygmy shrew, holds the title of the world's smallest living mammal.

An eight-gram “shrew mole” that’s one of the tiniest mammals on earth and a fanged furry hedgehog are among the more than 200 ...

Etruscan shrews are 20 times lighter than the average adult mouse. They have a body length of about 4 cm excluding the tail ...

The sengi is also known as an “elephant shrew” but is not a shrew at all. These little creatures are insectivorous mammals ...

With a voracious appetite for insects, a long snout, and beady little eyes, the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew is one intriguing mammal. Today, 95 percent of its former one-million-acre wetland and ...

The animal is small enough to fit in the palm of ... The last scientific record of the "lost species" of elephant shrew was in the 1970s, despite local sightings. The creature was found alive ...

Having an average total length of just over three inches, the least shrew is easy to miss. This insectivore has been in ...